irvine@vuosaari.hai.fi wrote:
Hello All
Me again.
Asking about Promise 20276 again.
OK, I spent a day or so trying to get the "Promise FastTrak module" to play nice with linux. Unfortunately I haven't succeded YET.
Question 1. "Do I need to bother?"
I have come to understand that the 2.4.18 kernel has support for this chip and that the 2.4.19 kernel has even better support for this chip.
Anyone have experience with this chip and the kernel. I suppose my main concerns are 1. whether or not it is stable 2. how well does it perform.
I was unable to get it to work under 2.4.18... but it works beautifully under 2.4.19. It's fast and very stable.
Question 2. How straight forward would it be.
I would prepare the RAID arrays first using FastTrak Fastbuild or whatever it's called. Then I would proceed to install SuSE. Correct?
On a fresh install could I just pass some boot options and expect to get things working. I have in mind passing info viz the Promise controllers I/O addresses, i.e ide2=0x9400, 0x9002 ide3=... that sort of thing.
The only thing I added to my config (running SuSE 8.0 with lilo) was: disk = /dev/ataraid/d0 bios = 0x80
One last Question. Why not GRUB. All the stuff I have read on setting up raid with linux and the 20276 chip suggest lilo. Any reason for this?
That's what was installed with 8.0. I've not tried it under 8.1 yet. - Herman