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Old 06-18-2004, 04:17 PM   #1
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Promise Ultra100TX2 Controller not recognized


Newbie needs help.

I'm setting up a file server with 4 hard drives. The first 3 are IDE and working fine. The one I'm having trouble with is a WD 137G using a Promise Ultra100TX2 controller card. The controller is seen by the BIOS but not recognized by Linux. The drive does work, used it with W2k OS. The distro is Debian 3.0 r2 kernal 2.2.20. I checked Promise Technology's web site, but they don't seem to support Linux.

Anyone had this problem or have any suggestions?

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Wayne
 
Old 06-18-2004, 05:47 PM   #2
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The 2.2 kernel is an old one: from 1999. Maybe your harddisk is too modern to be supported... I don't know the details about supported hardware and kernels, but it really sounds like a kernel problem. You could try updating to 2.4, or even 2.6. Debian woody is also quite old, there will soon be a new release (Sarge). I think you can find by which kernel your harddisk is supported. I already found an interesting site for you I think: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

Upgrading a kernel isn't a hard task in Debian: you don't have to recompile a kernel, you can just download a kernel-image package and install it. Maybe you bootloader(lilo or grub)-configuration will be updated too automatically, I'm not sure if woody already does that. You will not have to delete your old kernel, just choose which kernel you need on boot-time.

You can also consider moving to sarge, as it will be the next release within some months or so, but sarge doesn't provide security-updates yet, and will regularly be updated, what can result in broken packages and stuff, not a good thing for a server of course...

Succes,

Corien
 
Old 06-18-2004, 06:09 PM   #3
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Corien thanks for the good info. Thanks now I have some things to try I was stuck.

Wayne
 
Old 06-19-2004, 08:29 AM   #4
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Well it worked. I updated the kernel to 2.4.18-686 using dselect, rebooted and there it was. Now all I have to do is figure out how to mount it.

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