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05-31-2003, 02:16 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2003
Distribution: Mandrake
Posts: 10
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Promise TX2000 and Linux Kernels
Hi,
I'm not sure whether or not this is a hardware question or would be seen as a software question, so please bare with me
I currently have a linux system that runs MDK 9.0 off of a RAID system that uses the supplied drivers off of PROMISE's website... The problem is I want to upgrade my kernel BUT I know that if I make and install it my system will no longer boot
I have noticed that on PROMISE's website they provide you with open source drivers that can be configured to operate under any kernel version as long as they have been compiled under that specific version
I want to know whether I can 'make' the kernel, create a boot disk with it, configure the RAID drivers and install them from it, whilst changing the kernel version that my HD boots from?????
This has been puzzling me for a while now and any helpful responses would be appreciated. Has anyone dealt with this problem before????
Thanks in Advance
demonicnewbie
p.s if this has been posted before I apologise in advance and will glady accept urls in replies....
Last edited by demonicbnewbie; 05-31-2003 at 02:19 PM.
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06-02-2003, 08:05 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Distribution: Slackware
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They might have been included in the kernel by now, a lot of Promise and Highpoint cards were added in the past few revs of the 2.4.21-??? runup. What's the number of the card off of:
/sbin/lspci
Cheers,
Finegan
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06-03-2003, 04:21 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2003
Distribution: Mandrake
Posts: 10
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Lo finegan,
I couldn't find the program you suggested in your reply but I ran something called lspcidrake, which I figured was the same thing. It reports my RAID card as a 'Promise Technology, Inc. | PDC20271'
I was also looking at the developers kernel so if its supported in the production one I assume it'll will be supported in the developers one.
Thanks for you help
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06-03-2003, 05:26 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 5,700
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Its not in the Mandrake shipping kernel, 2.4.20, but it did make it into 2.4.21:
Code:
[ ] PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67|68|69|70} support
And 2.4.21-rc6-xfs:
Code:
< > PROMISE PDC202{68|69|70|71|75|76|77} support (NEW)
Cheers,
Finegan
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