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Old 05-31-2003, 02:16 PM   #1
demonicbnewbie
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Unhappy 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....

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Old 06-02-2003, 08:05 PM   #2
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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

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Old 06-03-2003, 04:21 AM   #3
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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
 
Old 06-03-2003, 05:26 PM   #4
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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,

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