RH9 (as Mandrake 9.2 seems to have an 'issue' with LG CDR *POOF!*), and a Promise S150SX4 Serial ATA card.

The driver on the Promise site is less-than confidence inspiring: I can see that it is "loaded" on boot (I use lilo) as it's listed as "Fastrak S150SX."

Machine is an Intel D875PBZ board with Intel P-4 2.4G CPU. RAID-5 set up & initialised with the Promise utility at boot.

Output from lspci however:

[root@root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2578 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2579 (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 257b (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB ICH5 IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB SMBus (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon VE QY
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1019
03:02.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 6622 (rev01)

ack. And if I compile a kernel other than the "issued" RH9 2.4.20-8smp version, it's ~guaranteed~ not to work!

BTW: The Intel NIC runs like a scalded dog on my LAN in spite of the "unknown device" reference... Impressive.

Any/all help is appreciated.

Dr E--
mhm 17x1

Has anyone tried the Highpoint 1640 yet? I'm about to...

I'll report back on this tomorrow, ASAP.

There's a comprehensive manual (PDF) and SuSE driver as well... even has a FreeBSD 5.0 driver listed!

I'm really not sure, but I believe that you don't have to worry at all about it saying "Unkown device" -- this simply indicates that the product-specific PCI code is not known to the kernel's PCI stuff, which (usually) doesn't matter at all.

Does the drive work?

Cheers!

Well, no...the drive didn't work. Now there's a highpoint 4 channel 1640 in there. It was going fine: card seen, drives listed in "hardware browser," then I went to the card utility to config a RAID-5 array and half way thru the build, a hard power outtage seems to have changed things. Now after a ton of time, there's a message when I "insmod hpt374.o" which says I have "unresolved symbols"...

I'm goin' "Trick-or-Treat"-ing, and OD on sugar.

99% percent of the time, "unresolved symbols" indicates that the binary doesn't match your running kernel. You'll need to rebuild your kernel & modules (don't forget to install the modules, too!), unless insmod is looking in the wrong place. Also, you usually want to use modprobe rather than insmod.

Have fun!

Highpoint and Promise controllers are software RAID controllers. RAID 5 will decrease the performance to a crawl. Use hardware RAID controllers like 3ware.

You can try LINUX software RAID.

Ack. Didn't come back soon enuff to catch this... but I did find a solution to my specific dilemma: Highpoint 1640, WD Raptors and Mandrake's 9.2 distro. Smooth install, and will now try a 2.6.0-test9 kernel "upgrade."

DrE--
mhm 17x1