Does anyone know of a driver for the 2.6.5 kernel under SUSE Enterprise 9? The SUSE9 driver at the Promise site is for 2.4.21... I had this problem earlier in the year. Had a SUSE 8.0 Pro server running on an intel board with Promise IDE raid onboard. Why on earth Intel would
Thanks for this... Sadly I run 2 x 2 RAID1 disks, so I use all 4 Promise ports. I'll either have to revert to RH 2.4 kernel, as it supports the Promise, or upgrade my card to something that is visible in 2.6. If you know of a drive board, or RAID board that does work, I'd love to hear about it! Thanks for all the help, appreciated! Steve Pritchard -----Original Message----- From: Hans du Plooy [mailto:hansdp@sagacit.com] Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 10:29 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Promise Driver - SUSE - ENT 9 On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 12:38 -0700, Systems Administrator wrote: put a promise controller on their boards is beyond me, but anyways. The machine was running two 120GB discs, each master on either of the Promise interfaces, setup in a "hardware" raid-1. The contoller used the promise supplied driver for the 2.4 kernel. No drivers available from promise for 2.6. 2.6 kernel has a driver for the card, but it doesn't recognise the raid function - probably because it's completely software, and linux kernel does that already. Long story short I put the discs on the normal Intel controllers (non raid) and used linux kernel raid to make a mirror. It's a hell of a lot faster than anything on the promise ever was, and a lot more stable too. So if you're only dealing with two drives, I strongly suggest you put them on your normal IDE interfaces and use linux raid. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com