I'm trying to install the SuSE drivers Promise provide for this beast (it's an ATA RAID card; the drivers I'm using are available from http://www.promise.com/support/suse2_eng.asp?mode=linux_download&product_id=8 ), and the install script (and also the files that some with it) seem to be incredibly broken. Does anyone have any experience of using this card with SuSE, and getting it to work? Thanks, Vicky Clarke -- System Administrator, Frontier Developments Ltd http://www.frontier.co.uk/
Hi, On Dienstag, Mai 21, 2002 at 12:00:52, Vicky Clarke wrote:
I'm trying to install the SuSE drivers Promise provide for this beast (it's an ATA RAID card; the drivers I'm using are available from http://www.promise.com/support/suse2_eng.asp?mode=linux_download&product_id=8 ), and the install script (and also the files that some with it) seem to be incredibly broken. Does anyone have any experience of using this card with SuSE, and getting it to work?
Which SuSE Version? Since kernel 2.4 there are Open Source Modules for "promise fake raid" called ataraid and pdcraid. Henne -- Hendrik Vogelsang aka Henne mailto: hvogel<at>hennevogel.de I am Jack's inflamed sense of rejection # random sigs made with fortune
Which SuSE Version? Since kernel 2.4 there are Open Source Modules for "promise fake raid" called ataraid and pdcraid.
Yes, I discovered these yesterday - it's SuSE 8, and the kernel it installed (2.4.18). And it's nearly all working too, just got to fix the fs I broke fiddling with it ;) Out of interest, why do you say 'fake raid'? I thought Promise cards actually did something plausibly comparable to real RAID.. Vicky
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 11:27, Vicky Clarke wrote:
Which SuSE Version? Since kernel 2.4 there are Open Source Modules for "promise fake raid" called ataraid and pdcraid.
Yes, I discovered these yesterday - it's SuSE 8, and the kernel it installed (2.4.18). And it's nearly all working too, just got to fix the fs I broke fiddling with it ;)
Out of interest, why do you say 'fake raid'? I thought Promise cards actually did something plausibly comparable to real RAID..
ooohooo ... you are so wrong !!! I am having problems too. But not with the instalation but with the very low performance at high usage of processors. This means ... is in fact a software raid ... but in Promise bios :))
Vicky
Personally I gave up on the Promise and opted for standard Linux software
raid.
It was a far simpiler option and meant that I could compile my own custom
kernel without any broken module dependancies.
Kind regards,
Paul Miles
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Which SuSE Version? Since kernel 2.4 there are Open Source Modules for "promise fake raid" called ataraid and pdcraid.
Yes, I discovered these yesterday - it's SuSE 8, and the kernel it installed (2.4.18). And it's nearly all working too, just got to fix the fs I broke fiddling with it ;)
Out of interest, why do you say 'fake raid'? I thought Promise cards actually did something plausibly comparable to real RAID..
ooohooo ... you are so wrong !!! I am having problems too. But not with the instalation but with the very low performance at high usage of processors. This means ... is in fact a software raid ... but in Promise bios :))
Vicky
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Hi Vicky,
first of all, could you please cut down the line length to about 72
characters or less? This makes reading the mail with text mode MUAs
much nicer.
"Vicky Clarke"
Out of interest, why do you say 'fake raid'? I thought Promise cards actually did something plausibly comparable to real RAID..
Nope, at least the cheap Promise and HighPoint RAID controllers do the RAID in Software. Under Win* the driver and the BIOS supply the RAID functionality and under Linux the software RAID driver md is used. The pdcraid and hptraid drivers only make the disk layout understandable for the md driver. For real hardware IDE RAID, take a look at 3wares Escalade controllers (http://www.3ware.com) and note their higher prices. Philipp
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