Promise has a driver for both Redhat 6.2 and 7.0 available on their site but
no other version; here's a copy of the 'readme' file included with it:
FastTrak66/100 Redhat Linux 6.2 and 7.0 Readme
This bootable SCSI Module only supports Redhat 6.2 and 7.0. If you choose to
use any other Kernel or version of the Redhat
you must recompile the Kernel against our SCSI module.
Redhat 6.2
Extract the contents of the zip file onto a formatted floppy disk.
1.) Start the Redhat Install by booting with the installation diskettes or
bootable CD ROM.
2.) At the "Welcome to Red Hat Linux 6.2" installation screen, a prompted
labeled "boot:" will appear at the bottom of the
screen. At the prompt type "expert text" (without quoations) and then press
the enter key.
3.) At the "Devices" dialog box insert the diskette with the module in the
floppy drive and then select "ok".
4.) After reaching the "Devices" dialog box again, select "Add Device".
5.) When asked "what kind of device would you like to add?", select "SCSI",
and then select "ok".
6.) Now press "P" key and scoll down to "Promise IDE RAID SCSI Driver", and
then select "ok".
7.) The installation process will now display the "Promise FastTrak IDE RAID
SCSI Driver" as been found, select "done".
8.) Continue with the installation as normal. When you reach the
partitioning you will only be able to use "Disk Druid".
Create a 1 gig root partition and then use the remaining space to define to
"/usr" folder off of the root. This must be done
because Redhat 6.2 has a 1 gig SCSI boot limitation. LILO MUST BE INSTALLED
ON THE MBR IF YOU WANT TO BOOT FROM THE ARRAY.
Redhat 7.0
Extract the contents of the zip file onto a formatted floppy disk.
1.) Start the Redhat Install by booting with the installation diskettes or
bootable CD ROM.
2.) At the "Welcome to Red Hat Linux 6.2" installation screen, a prompted
labeled "boot:" will appear at the bottom of the
screen. At the prompt type "expert text" (without quoations) and then press
the enter key.
3.) At the "Devices" dialog box select "Yes".
4.) At the "Insert your driver disk and press the "OK" to continue" prompt,
press "OK".
5.) After reaching the "Devices" dialog box again, select "Add Device".
6.) When asked "what kind of device would you like to add?", select "SCSI",
and then select "ok".
7.) Now press "P" key and scoll down to "Promise IDE RAID SCSI Driver", and
then select "ok".
8.) The installation process will now display the "Promise FastTrak IDE RAID
SCSI Driver" as been found, select "done".
9.) Continue with the installation as normal. You may boot from any size
partition as Redhat 7.0 does not have the 1 gig boot
limitation that 6.2 does. LILO MUST BE INSTALLED ON THE MBR IF YOU WANT TO
BOOT FROM THE ARRAY.
More extensive info the installation of the module will be posted by Nov 22,
2000.
Hope this helps, Mike
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of hex
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 16:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] LM7.2 and a promise FASTTRAK66 questions.
Hello all!
I plan on gettin a promise ultra 66 fasttrak raid controller around
christmas and i have a few questions concerning raid 0 striping and linux.
Basically i will be striping to 17.2 gb WD harddrives and doing the combined
drive thing and im needing to know if there is anything special i should do
concerning kernel modules (like which ones to add to the kernel because im
currently running a recompiled lm 7.2 base kernel with a bunch of stuff
removed so it runs better on this machine). Also is it possible to get lilo
to boot from the 2 hds seen as one or will i need a seperate drive to boot
from? Will the striping process properly stripe reiserFS or should i just
trash my mandrake install and start fresh? Willl this even work?
Thanks for your time.
h3x
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