Placa base intel con bios actualizada Promise fastrak 100 tx2 con bios actualizada. Red hat 9.0 i drivers de promise ultima version.
La instalación del red hat tambien la hace
correctamente solo hay una
pequeña duda, cuando entro en el discdruid veo 3
discos los dos que he
pinchado en la contoladora raid y otro que me sale
con el comentario promis
raid que es de la misma capacidad que los otros,
supongo que sera el mirror
pero mi pregunta es, ¿no tendría que ver uno solo?.
Linux kernel does not support FastTrak mirror.
If you want to use it for mirror, you have 2 choices:
1) disable mirror in the fasttrak bios; then use linux software mirroring. Basically you'll use the fasttrak as an non-raid ata cotroller.
2) use binary drivers promise provides here
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=88&category=All&os=100
This will allow you to use the mirror you set up in the fasttrak bios.
Why don't these companies release sources to their drivers to be included in the kernel?
I don't see this "binary driver" implementation very flexible and self-sustaining, puts more work on the supplier side to get this working for each distribution and each kernel release, on top of the inflexibility it can provide to the customer.
These cards do raid in the driver. Thus they would need to open source their raid engine. In many cases the vendor has licensed their raid engine from some where else. This is why the cheap cards have binary only drivers, and the expensive card have open source drivers. The expensive cards are doing raid on the card so all they are giving away is how you talk to their card.
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