My hardware:
ASUS P4C800 deluxe (includes Promise PDC20378 FastTrak chipset)
P4 2.4
2 x 512 MB
2 Maxtor 80 GB SATA
1 IBM 30 GB EIDE
My configuration:
FEEDORA core 1 - kernel 2.4.22.

Two disks are in hardware raid 0 FAT32 formatted, the ide IBM one on the primary master is EXT3 formatted.

I'm not able to mount the hardware raid.(Actually I'm a newbie).
This is the dmesg standard output:
<dmesg>
Linux version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ff30000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff30000 - 000000003ff40000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff40000 - 000000003fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 261936
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 32560 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000f9e60
ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x09000302 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff30000
ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x09000302 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff30200
ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x09000302 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff30390
ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I OEMBIOS 0x09000302 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff40040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 P4C81 P4C81091 0x00000091 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.img hdc=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda2 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2605.941 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 5203.55 BogoMIPS
Memory: 1031612k/1047744k available (1503k kernel code, 15744k reserved, 1110k data, 136k init, 130240k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping 09
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/24d0] at 00:1f.0
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:1d.2
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:1d.2
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hda: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c040cfc0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8160B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: JLMS XJ-HD166S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=3737/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 159k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:50:32 Oct 29 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1d.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xeec0, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef00, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef20, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1d.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1d.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.3 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef40, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:04.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB2
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem f8853c00
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jun-19/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 8 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
hub.c: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
Adding Swap: 1831400k swap-space (priority -1)
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x471/0x1120) is not claimed by any active driver.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1264
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: CREATIVE Model: RHOMBA Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 508669 512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: sda1
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:03.0
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[feaff800-feafffff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e01800004f0897]
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: CD-RW GCE-8160B Rev: 1.02
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=f29, pflags=4)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8185 buckets, 65480 max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 15:50:18 Oct 29 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH5 found at IO 0xee80 and 0xe800, MEM 0xfebffc00 and 0xfebff800, IRQ 10
i810: Intel ICH5 mmio at 0xf8a4dc00 and 0xf8a4f800
i810_audio: Primary codec has ID 0
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
i810_audio: Connection 0 with codec id 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS117 (Unknown)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 6
</dmesg>

Stock 2.4.22 doesn't have support for hardware under the PDC203xx series. Heck, it can't even see it as a normal ATA controller let alone the hardware Raid aspect.

I just looked in the menuconfig of 2.4.25 and it doesn't seem to be there at all either. Hmm, Neither does 2.6.3, but there's source code on the promise site... unfortunately Promise strictly uses model names instead of their own chipset names, so to find the right one you're going to have to know the exact silly name they use for the PDC20378, like Fastrack SATA 1500s and so forth... Also there seem to be some precompiled modules available at different board manufacturers sites, but nothing I've seen so far for FC-1, and this is a kernel module so the ones for RH9 are NOT going to cut it.

Cheers,

Finegan

Is the RAID array created by Windows XP or by the controller's BIOS. If its created in the OS. You will have a hard time mounting it in LINUX. If it is created in the BIOS. Its a little easy. You have to dig deeper in linux. Look for something that says /dev/mdr, /dev/rd, or something similar. I'm not sure because I have not yet use RAID in LINUX. Display it here on what you found but do not mount it yet. You do not want to lose your data by mounting an incorrect device that is part of the RAID array.

Look through the linux document site.
http://www.tldp.org

BTW, are you sure your processor is a 2.4 GHz because LINUX detected as 2.6 GHz processor.

finegan, Promise controllers are not hardware RAID. They are software RAID.