Hello again.....Have a question regarding an installation of Red Hat 7.3 on a new box. It is P3 1.2g, 512ram, TUSI-M motherboard with integrated lan, audio, and video. An IDE CD-ROM, connected on motherboard secondary slave. An Adaptec 2930 with a Seagate tape drive. Now the fun one....a Promise Technology FastTrak TX2000, setup in BIOS as a 'Security' Mirror array with a 40gig hard drive on IDE1 Master, and IDE2 Master which I need everything to be installed on. It uses the PDC20271 chip. The only thing I am needing help with is this Promise card....when I start installation, it sees the card, but when Im asked to partition, I can create partitions on /dev/hde and /dev/hdg, each of which have 40 gig available. I have followed the ATA-RAID HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/index.html) but get the same results. Shouldnt I see this as one 40g drive that I can just mount as normal and fiddle with? Any help would be much appreciated...Ive spent 2 days digging around on the web and newsgroups for any help, and so far doesnt look promising.

I also added another hard drive on motherboard primary master, installed OS to it, rebuilt kernel, and still have the same results. Was expecting that, but at least gave it a try.

Also, the drivers on Promise's site at http://www.promise.com/support/mix_d...88&family_id=2 are the same ones referenced in ATA-RAID HOWTO.

Thanks,
Josh

I don't know too much about RAID, but there have been a lot of posts recently about the promise PDC202XX series chipsets. From what I've looked up, the PDC support in the 2.4.18 kernel ends with 20266 and support for the 2027x series only starts with 2.4.19, which just hit rc-2. Now these cards are both ata100 and RAID controllers so I don't know if the card support is extended over both aspects... but you may want to look into what they have to say at the ide driver developer page over at www.linux-ide.org

Regardless of whether or not your successful, please post back as anything you might have in the way of progress could be helpful to a bunch of jokers having similar problems.

Luck,

Finegan

Appreciate the help at any rate finegan. Nice collection of machine by the way. After working on it some more, and downloading 2.4.18, prepatch 2.4.19-rc3, and also testing 2.5.27, I find the latest kernel support is for PDC20270. Best I can tell, at this point my only option is to stick with Red Hat 7.2 using the drivers provided by Promise Tech. There tech support told me they should have 7.3 drivers out this week (7/26/02), but he had not seen them yet. Using 7.2 the only thing I had to do to install with the driver was define my ide parameters at boot. Hopefully we will have support for this chip soon and I can use native kernel support instead of loading the Promise drivers....

Thanks,
Josh

Hi,
I have similar promblem with my promise tx2000. I have written support@promise, but havn't recived any response.
I am about to install a new linux box, and I was hoping for redhat 7.3, but I dont know if I should wait for the release of the driver or should i go with redhat 7.2. What is your view on the matter?
Best regards,
Henrik

Just an update....as of 7/26/02 Promise has released drivers for Red Hat 7.3. I have loaded them up on a test box and see no problems. I even pulled a drive during use and the Fast Trak logged it to syslog.

http://www.promise.com/support/linux...&product_id=88