Promise Controller (SX4000) drivers won't install...
OK, I have the FastTrak SX4000 controller and am having a bit of difficulty. I cannot seem to get the drivers to install. Granted they are 8.x drivers and I am trying to install 9.1 Pro. I followed the install instructions for a new install and SuSE said there were no drivers found. I setup a default instance of SuSE to try to add the driver as per the instructions, but insmod can't find FastTrak. I am not sure where to go from here. I tried contacting Promise previously on another matter, but I was ignored. So, any suggestion, other than getting a new card? ;) -- Jeff Dierking jeff@lordjester.com ------------------------ GPG/PGP KeyID 0x5F355DB4 Retrieve pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu?subject=get%200x5F355DB4 ------------------------ "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 23:04, Jeff Dierking wrote:
OK, I have the FastTrak SX4000 controller and am having a bit of difficulty.
I cannot seem to get the drivers to install. Granted they are 8.x drivers and I am trying to install 9.1 Pro.
I followed the install instructions for a new install and SuSE said there were no drivers found. I setup a default instance of SuSE to try to add the driver as per the instructions, but insmod can't find FastTrak.
I am not sure where to go from here. I tried contacting Promise previously on another matter, but I was ignored.
So, any suggestion, other than getting a new card? ;)
www.promise.com also you could call western digital they sell promise cards for use with their drives. I assume google turned up nothing on this model. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 23:04, Jeff Dierking wrote:
OK, I have the FastTrak SX4000 controller and am having a bit of difficulty.
I cannot seem to get the drivers to install. Granted they are 8.x drivers and I am trying to install 9.1 Pro.
I followed the install instructions for a new install and SuSE said there were no drivers found. I setup a default instance of SuSE to try to add the driver as per the instructions, but insmod can't find FastTrak.
I am not sure where to go from here. I tried contacting Promise previously on another matter, but I was ignored.
So, any suggestion, other than getting a new card? ;)
www.promise.com also you could call western digital they sell promise cards for use with their drives. I assume google turned up nothing on this model.
So you are trying to install a 2.4 kernel driver into a 2.6 kernel? SuSE 8.x used the 2.4.x kernel line and by default 9.1 is using the 2.6.x kernel line. There are some major differences in them. I don't know if they would totally kill the driver, but I know that drivers took a bit of a beating in getting the new kernel "into production". -- Kelly L. Fulks Home Account near Huntsville, AL
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 04:53, Kelly L. Fulks wrote:
So you are trying to install a 2.4 kernel driver into a 2.6 kernel? SuSE 8.x used the 2.4.x kernel line and by default 9.1 is using the 2.6.x kernel line. There are some major differences in them. I don't know if they would totally kill the driver, but I know that drivers took a bit of a beating in getting the new kernel "into production".
I am attempting to, as that is all there is. Maybe I will make a 9.0 server for now. Hopefully that will work. Thanks -- Jeff Dierking jeff@lordjester.com ------------------------ GPG/PGP KeyID 0x5F355DB4 Retrieve pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu?subject=get%200x5F355DB4 ------------------------ Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 20:35, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
So, any suggestion, other than getting a new card? ;)
www.promise.com also you could call western digital they sell promise cards for use with their drives. I assume google turned up nothing on this model. --
Nope, nothing on Google what-so-ever other than the 8.x drivers that are listed on Promise's site. -- Jeff Dierking jeff@lordjester.com ------------------------ GPG/PGP KeyID 0x5F355DB4 Retrieve pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu?subject=get%200x5F355DB4 ------------------------ Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:42:47 -0700 Jeff Dierking
So, any suggestion, other than getting a new card? ;)
www.promise.com also you could call western digital they sell
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 20:35, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: promise
cards for use with their drives. I assume google turned up nothing on this model. --
Nope, nothing on Google what-so-ever other than the 8.x drivers that are listed on Promise's site.
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Then you have no choice, make a support call to their 800 number and tell them to catchup with Suse or ask for the source code so the community can handle the problem. Once the *nix community fixes the driver Promise can host it. Such things should be open source anyway. CWSIV ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
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