[NTLUG:Discuss] Promise Ultra100 TX2 on linux?

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:23:47 -0500, Brett Grayson (Bitwerks) wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:09AM -0600, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:51:53 -0500, Brett Grayson (Bitwerks) wrote:
>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>>    first post...hope this question is okay here ;)
>>>
>>>     I was gonna snag a 200gb WD drive and I was wondering if anyone 
>>> here
>>>  was running a TX2 card on their linux box...specifically RH 8 ?
>>>  Www.promise.com doesn't list linux drivers for the card, but are there
>>>  some unsupported drivers out there, or maybe this card will just 
>>> 'work'
>>>  ?
>>>  Any info/feedback is appreciated.
>>
>> that card users the PDC20268 chip/driver. This works on my RH9 box.
>> this is kernel specific... make sure that you have the latest redhat
>> 2.4.x kernel and you should be ok.
>>
>> jack
>>
> 
>   I'm a newb... But I'm assuming when a driver is labeled for a specific 
> version of linux (ie, rh8)... They mean that the driver is just for the 
> stock kernel that came with it, right? I have a promise sx6000 in that 
> system, and I think they just have 'redhat 8' drivers for it... would 
> that kernel support the tx2?

the sx6000 card uses a different chip/driver than the tx2 card. 
The kernel you have probably supports both cards... but I am 
pretty sure taht the 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 kernels had fixes for 
the promise chips so you might want to update the kernel any way. 

jack