Redhat 7.3 on MBFastTrak133 Lite

amish_geek · 08-22-2003, 07:33 PM

I am trying to get RedHat 7.3 installed on 2 new servers I just got. This is my first time going with hardware RAID, and I have 2 40gb identical drives set up in the Promise FastTrak bios in Raid 1 (mirroring)

When I boot off the redhat cd, it says no Harddrives were found, and when I went to try to see if I could load a driver, it only gave me SCSI and Network as the options. How can I get this so that I can install RedHat?

Once again, this is my first time dealing with hardware Raid.

Thanks,
~Aaron

amish_geek · 08-22-2003, 07:35 PM

Heh, I probably should include that I am using a Tyan S2099GNNR Trinity i845E motherboard that has the Promise MBFastTrak133 lite (PDC20276) onboard Raid.

amish_geek · 08-23-2003, 01:17 PM

I got it figured out, I finally found the redhat 7.3 drivers for the controller on Promise's site, they were very well hidden

I had to canibalize a floppy drive from an old p90 system I had lying around, and rip the covers off the 1U chassis to use the comandeered floppy. Booted up off the cd, ran "linux dd" and inserted the disk and it was smooth sailing!