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Featherfoot
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 Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 1:19 am Post subject: 2.4.21 Won't recognize my Promise FastTrak Lite Controller |
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I am running Gentoo on a Soyo Dragon+ motherboard with a Promise FastTrak Lite RAID controller and have two 129 GB disks hooked up as RAID 1. It works fine with kernel 2.4.20.
When I boot up with 2.4.21, it fails with a kernel panic saying the root is wrong. I tried building a 2.4.21 system on a non-raid disk. When I do that, I get the message: "Promise Fasttrak (tm) Software raid driver 0.03beta: No array found.
I have tried the vanilla 2.4.21 kernel and the -ac kernels up to ac4 with the same result. I tried setting the Promise PDC202{68..77} support option with and without the Special FastTrak feature with no change in results.
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Crg
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:03 am Post subject: Re: 2.4.21 Won't recognize my Promise FastTrak Lite Controll |
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| Featherfoot wrote: | I am running Gentoo on a Soyo Dragon+ motherboard with a Promise FastTrak Lite RAID controller and have two 129 GB disks hooked up as RAID 1. It works fine with kernel 2.4.20.
When I boot up with 2.4.21, it fails with a kernel panic saying the root is wrong. I tried building a 2.4.21 system on a non-raid disk. When I do that, I get the message: "Promise Fasttrak (tm) Software raid driver 0.03beta: No array found.
I have tried the vanilla 2.4.21 kernel and the -ac kernels up to ac4 with the same result. I tried setting the Promise PDC202{68..77} support option with and without the Special FastTrak feature with no change in results.
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You're better off disabling the "RAID" feature of this board and using the linux software raid.
I presume you are using RAID 1 for protection against loss of data? This excert from the ataraid source for the promise card (line 291 - pdcraid.c)
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Later on, online/offline checking and performance needs adding */
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So it doesn't even check to see whether the disks are happily working (online/offline).
If you really don't want to re set up your machine to use linux software raid (MD), get the binary module for this driver from promise.
The only real reason to use these cards, (as they're not true hardware raid cards), is if you have shared disks between multple OSs (ie linux, NT, etc) and you want them to be able to share software raided disks. |
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Featherfoot
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:25 am Post subject: 2.4.21 Promise RAID doesn't work |
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| I am dual booting with Windows XP, so I really want to continue to use the Promise RAID software. I will poke around the Promise web site. It certainly is annoying that they broke this software. |
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Crg
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 9:39 am Post subject: Re: 2.4.21 Promise RAID doesn't work |
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| Featherfoot wrote: | | I am dual booting with Windows XP, so I really want to continue to use the Promise RAID software. I will poke around the Promise web site. It certainly is annoying that they broke this software. |
I wouldn't have concidered that the ataraid software in the kernel was in a fixed state to start with, it's version 0.03beta for a reason 
If you're dual booting then you really need the binary promise drivers for this. |
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gargelkarg
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:38 am Post subject: |
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july 2003 and the driver is still 0.03beta...
i have a 20276 onboard on a msi 845mster board. when i had 2* wd 80gb drives, the driver recognized the array. when i had 2* wd 120gb drives, the driver wouldn't recognize the array. and now that i have some _other_ wd 80gb drives, it fails again.
so: msi support confirmed to me that there often are problems with those promise chips and some harddrives.
one must be afraid of kernel updates with such bad chips and drivers. the promise chip, though it is a fine ide controller chip, is worth nothing when it comes to raid. i will use linux software-raid, too, now. |
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