7.1 on a Promise FastTrak100
Hi Has anyone done this? I have found the guide for doing it under 7.0 which requires a special boot disk and (potentially) module for the card. However in the corresponding updates directory for 7.1 there is no mention of Promise drivers and modules - leading me to believe it has been integrated by now. Yet, when I install as normal, Suse cannot see the disks and I cant see a particular Promise module name to load at install/boot time. Any help appreciated. Stephen. -- Stephen Johnston (NGAST/Beowulf Project) Phone: +49 89 32006563 European Southern Observatory Fax : +49 89 32006380 Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen http://www.eso.org --
->However in the corresponding updates directory for 7.1 there is ->no mention of Promise drivers and modules - leading me to believe it has ->been integrated by now. If you have the 2.2.18 kernel and up it is supported. I have this chipset on my motherboard. It works quite well with 7.1..I used it first with the 2.2.18 kernel then switched up to the 2.4.2 kernel..both worked just fine. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
On Friday 11 May 2001 10:58 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
->However in the corresponding updates directory for 7.1 there is ->no mention of Promise drivers and modules - leading me to believe it has ->been integrated by now.
If you have the 2.2.18 kernel and up it is supported. I have this chipset on my motherboard. It works quite well with 7.1..I used it first with the 2.2.18 kernel then switched up to the 2.4.2 kernel..both worked just fine.
How do you get the full 100 though? My mobo supports 66/100 and the kernel (2.4.4) only supports 66, according to the boot up log. -Steven
* Ben Rosenberg [Fri, 11 May 2001 07:58:56 -0700]:
If you have the 2.2.18 kernel and up it is supported. I have this chipset on my motherboard. It works quite well with 7.1..I used it first with the 2.2.18 kernel then switched up to the 2.4.2 kernel..both worked just fine.
You forgot to mention that the controller is only supported as an ATA100 controller. The fakeRAID functionality isn't support, as Promise won't open up their Documentation. Promise is said to be working on a driver, but this will be binary only and therefore *not* going to be included in SuSE Linux. -- Penguins to save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt on Linux for S/390
* Steven Hatfield [Fri, 11 May 2001 11:01:44 -0400]:
How do you get the full 100 though? My mobo supports 66/100 and the kernel (2.4.4) only supports 66, according to the boot up log.
Depends on the drive(s) you've attached to it. But you wouldn't notice it anyways, as there is *no* drive currently available that really uses the increased speed. Heck, the fastest ATA disks currently available only just exceed ATA33 speeds. For a test, just do 'hdparm -t /dev/<your disk>' as user root for a few times to get a better sample. I bet it won't even exceed ATA33. -- Penguins to save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt on Linux for S/390
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