[NTLUG:Discuss] Help with Promise FastTrak Tx2000

[Daniel Hauck]

The problem is that Promise uses software for its RAID stuff.  Yes, the 
onboard BIOS supports RAID constructions and maintenance activities, but 
when the OS is running, it's all software.

Ultimately, what you have, as far as Linux is concerned, is two IDE drives 
and two IDE controllers.  Use Linux's own software RAID solutions for that.  
As for booting?  Eh... that's a good question.

the nice thing about the Linux software approach is that you can use those 
two added IDE controllers and the ones on your system board to make a nice 
little RAID5 solution which is much better.  Think on that a bit.


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>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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