[NTLUG:Discuss] Help with Promise FastTrak Tx2000

[gan hawk]

Hello,

I want to make a bootable RAID 1 array with promise FastTrak TX 2000. I 
installed the card on the computer (an old one which has no special features 
in the BIOS for booting from RAID card) and installed the drivers as a 
module which gets loaded at boot. But when I tried to boot the machine, it 
perceives each disk attached to the card as 2 separate IDE drives! I can 
access /dev/hde and /dev/hdg separately and even that is very slow and dmesg 
shows lost interrupts.
I cannot access the drives as /dev/sda (Promise website tells me that the 
RAID will be detected as IDE instead of SCSI and that is normal)

The kernel has has the following option in the grub:
ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 
ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0    noapic

I am trying to install this on a redhat 9 system (2.4.20-8)
Does anyone else have the same problem or someone got TX2000 working 
successfully as a bootable RAID ?

Thanks,
Ganesh

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