Would a test of a Promise SATA II TX4 (installed in a Asus P4C800E-Deluxe) be of any interest from the angle of 9.2 support. Plz. CC me too .... so I don't miss the reply ... have a to many unread mails from the list Johan Tirsdag 09 november 2004 17:55 skrev Hans du Plooy:
On a client's server I have SuSE 8.0 with the following raid controller:
lspci -v 02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 02) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 5744 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22 I/O ports at dff0 [size=8] I/O ports at dfe4 [size=4] I/O ports at dfa8 [size=8] I/O ports at dfe0 [size=4] I/O ports at df00 [size=64] Memory at feaa0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [58] Power Management version 1
dmesg: PROMISE FastTrak Series Linux Driver Version 1.02.0.22 scsi0 : FastTrak Vendor: Promise Model: 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev: 1.10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 234441472 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB) Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
The controller works with the drivers supplied by Promise, and works OK but not particularly fast. I want to upgrade this box to 9.2, for various reasons.
I would like to know if anyone is using this particular raid controller in a raid-1 configuration under SUSE 9.1 or 9.2 with the kernel driver, and how well it works.
Also, will transferring the raid set from the Promise driver to the kernel driver work? Will the kernel driver pick it up (I'm not sure how much of this controller is hardware raid).
Thank you
-- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za