Peter Karlsson said: > Hi! > > I am trying to install Debian 3.0 on my new PC which has a Promise > FastTrak133 RAID controller to which I have attached two disks to use for > mirroring. Accessing these disks from MS-DOS works fine.
these are really bad cards to use with under Linux. I have seen time and again the IDE programmers for the kernel reccomend against them because Promise does not release specs or open source drivers for the cards, so it makes it difficult to support. Promise non-RAID cards work wonderfully though. I use their ATA/66 and ATA/100 cards in dozens of systems, have never tried anything higher then ATA/100 though. for a list of supported IDE chips in linux see: http://www.linux-ide.org/ there looks to be drivers for your card now in opensource format: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/ it looks to only support raid0, and it requires a special configuration, so you'll have to install onto a non-RAID disk first, patch and re-configure the kernel, reboot, make sure it works, copy the data over to the raid array from the non raid disk and hope it works(ie. boots). This procedure is similar for software raid under debian, install onto non-raid, make the raid array, make sure it works, copy data over, and boot. I use Software RAID1(bootable) on several debian systems both IDE and SCSI. The only IDE raid card I have used under linux is 3Ware's 6400 and 6800 controllers, they work well, but it's still IDE so its not like it is reliable(I've suffered about 15 disk failures on drives connected to my 3 ide raid cards over the past year and a half). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
