Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Albert Dengg-- > > ... > > if you want to use the promise scsi emulation drivers in debian you find > instrutions/drivers here: > http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/ (goto the preload floppy) > > But i never tried it (i gave up using t

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-16 Thread Albert Dengg
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:41:44 -0700 Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > This makes me think I should clarify something here, however: I'm > wanting to do hardware RAID, not software RAID. I'm assuming because > we are talking about RAID cards (vs. IDE cards) that this is assumed > but po

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
> > Hmmm, I don't even have this directory under my /dev/ (with the stable > > distribution). Does this get added with the testing distribution or > > some other way? > ... > you can get a script to create the device files from there: > http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/MAKEDEV > > by the w

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-16 Thread Albert Dengg
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:17:06 +0200 Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i apologise for not wrpping the mail... I somehow lost the automatic text wrapping i just fixed it. sorry yours, Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-16 Thread Albert Dengg
... > Hmmm, I don't even have this directory under my /dev/ (with the stable > distribution). Does this get added with the testing distribution or > some other way? ... you can get a script to create the device files from there: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/MAKEDEV by the way: the devi

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Yeatman wrote: Thanks for the reply! ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Roberto Sanchez-- I had to get a 2.4.21 kernel to get support for the 20276 chipset. I suppose you are using the testing distribution? Actually I installed that on a Woody system. I just did a wget fo

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
Thanks for the reply! ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Roberto Sanchez-- > > I had to get a 2.4.21 kernel to get support for the 20276 chipset. I suppose you are using the testing distribution? Do you know that previous kernels such as 2.4.18 didn't support this specific chip

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Yeatman wrote: Hi, similarly, I have an onboard Promise RAID chip but with chipset PDC20276 which, however so close, doesn't seem to be offered the same support by the 2.4.18(-19) kernel (at least it doesn't explicitely say it supports it as it does the PDC202067 chipset). The device is calle

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Ron Johnson-- > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:27, Greg Vickers wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just wondering if there is a person or group working on supporting the > > mirror features of the Promise Fast

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Hans Kristian Eiken
Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, Just wondering if there is a person or group working on supporting the mirror features of the Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian? I installed stable and got the controller working OK - but the kernel support fails the acid test, when a HDD is unplugged, the

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-09-28 Thread Greg Vickers
Thanks for the fast response Ron, you make good suggestions! However; At 03:42 PM 29/09/2003, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:27, Greg Vickers wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering if there is a person or group working on supporting the > mirror features of the Promise

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-09-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:27, Greg Vickers wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering if there is a person or group working on supporting the > mirror features of the Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian? I installed > stable and got the controller working OK - but the kernel su

Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-09-28 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, Just wondering if there is a person or group working on supporting the mirror features of the Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian? I installed stable and got the controller working OK - but the kernel support fails the acid test, when a HDD is unplugged, the system rocks on for