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Location: Sydney, Australia (at this point in time!)
Distribution: Fedora Core 1 (RedHat)
Posts: 20
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Hello everyone!
Promise just provided me with both the 'open source' as well as the RedHat 8.0/9.0 driver. I unfortunately do not have a website up, so if there is anyone out there that wants me to e-mail or upload it to a site, please let me know and make sure that you post the link so others can get hold of the driver.
I have personally tested the driver and everything seems to be working perfectly.
@ademalet: Can I include the drivers in the installation routine? [EDIT:]If it cause no trouble: Could you also send me the drivers? I could provide a mirror for the drivers if they are the right drivers (I should have a chance to easily insert the driver disk on installation startup and everything is done ). email: rene.landgrebe@gmx.de [/EDIT]
@Yusaku: Thank you for providing webspace. I hope you can give us the link as soon as possible.
@all: I'm still testing esban's method. It's a little bit more difficult than I think, but I was successful in install RedHat 9.0 - not in running it.
- copy ft3xx.o in /lib/modules/your_version_here/kernel/drivers/scsi
- add these lines in /etc/modules:
scsi_mod
sd_mod
ft3xx
- reboot the system
At boot you will receive an 'unresolved symbols' when finding modules dependencies but the process will anyway give you an OK because you loaded the necessary modules in /etc/modules
Now that the system booted:
- open a shell as root and do: makedev sd\*
Now you have your sda devices in /dev, just add the necessary entries in /etc/fstab to mount partitions at boot.
I tested esban's howto and it works for me very well! I'm now running RedHat 9.0 with a FastTrak376 S-ATA controller onboard and a nForce2 chipset with an integrated graphics device.
The driver is great and installs with no hassels, however, after installation, I reboot my system, and GRUB hangs. All I see at the bottom of the screen after reboot are the letters "GRUB". I followed the instructions on the readme file included with the driver archive. I know I'm really really close. How can I boot from the raid interface now?
Originally posted by richcm The driver is great and installs with no hassels, however, after installation, I reboot my system, and GRUB hangs. All I see at the bottom of the screen after reboot are the letters "GRUB". I followed the instructions on the readme file included with the driver archive. I know I'm really really close. How can I boot from the raid interface now?
Thanks everyone,
Rich
Do you created a boot disk at the end of the installation? This disk can save hours of work - I know it!
Yes, I made a boot disk, I'm actually able to boot into linux only by way of the old installation on the ide channel. I wanted to no longer use that old hard drive and remove it from this machine. This is why I need to configure grub to boot up from the raid interface. If anyone has any suggestions for me, please let me know. (Thanks bond006)
1st sorry because my poor english...
im a newbei im linux and i want to now step by step how i install my fasttrak 376 my mobo is asus p4pe, how can i recompile kernnel if i don't have success to install it???
hi,
test A7V8x new install RedHat 9:
(Binary Installation Disk: http://europe.homeip.net/~bond006/RedHat-ft3xx.zip)
- Install RedHat 9 with diverdisk .....
- Install.. OK
- System first start OK.....
- System update ...(internet)... OK
- System runs fine.....
- Powerdown... System crashed....
- Reboot ... Kernal panic... error....
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