Re: Promise Ultra66 support under RedHat 6.1

1999-12-21 Thread Andre Pang
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 05:34:58PM +0100, Mathias Jensen wrote: Hi, Anybody knows where to get a driver, a patch, or a stable kernel update for my Promise Ultra66 card? (I am running RedHat 6.1, kernel 2.2.12) Right now I need to pass parameters (IDE2=0xD003, blah, blah, blah

Promise Ultra66 support under RedHat 6.1

1999-12-20 Thread Mathias Jensen
Hi, Anybody knows where to get a driver, a patch, or a stable kernel update for my Promise Ultra66 card? (I am running RedHat 6.1, kernel 2.2.12) Right now I need to pass parameters (IDE2=0xD003, blah, blah, blah) to the kernel everytime I boot, which causes the system to report "bad

RE: Web page for kernel/raid updates Promise Ultra66 issues

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Livingston
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some good documentation about raid and ide? I am using the raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 patch at the moment and although they work fine am wondering if performance is enhanced with the ide patches since all my drives are ide (I know don't you think i WANT

Web page for kernel/raid updates Promise Ultra66 issues

1999-12-05 Thread Zach Coombes
Hello, First question: Is there a web page to check for the latest released or beta versions of the RAID-certified kernels and RAID-patches? I keep seeing email saying "just get the latest released version of the kernel, version 2.2.yatta-yatta", but I have no idea how one can track this with

Re: Web page for kernel/raid updates Promise Ultra66 issues

1999-12-05 Thread Danilo Godec
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Zach Coombes wrote: - the Ultra66 isn't supported yet. I'm running a 2.3.XX beta (yes I take digitalis regularly) as recent 2.2 kernels didn't even register the Ultra66 controllers' existence. Are the Ultra66 patches to the kernel nearing a state where we'll see

Re: Web page for kernel/raid updates Promise Ultra66 issues

1999-12-05 Thread doug
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Danilo Godec wrote: Well, the ide patches located in ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick apply to 2.2 kernels very nicely and include support for a variety of UDMA66 controller and chipsets. I think it's better and safer to run a non-developement kernel

Re: Promise Ultra66

1999-07-27 Thread Tim Moore
support is still a little buggy under linux. Meaning support for the U/66 is raw. Ultra/33 is solid and as fast as intel's PIIX4E chipset. i recommend HIGHLY against using 4 ide drives. they cannot recover from problems like io timeouts, etc, and are not hotswapable. All true, but these

RE: Promise Ultra66

1999-07-27 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
: Promise Ultra66 On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: support is still a little buggy under linux. i recommend HIGHLY against using 4 ide drives. they cannot recover from problems like io timeouts, etc, and are not hotswapable. Would it help if I bought 2 EIDE controllers

RE: Promise Ultra66

1999-07-27 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: I just saw 4.5GB SCSI-UW drives, at Fry's, for $168US. How much disk space do you need? Not to go too far off topic but, see what $168 gets you in IDE. Since I've done a little bit oflooking into this, I'll post some notes Ive found: (note, all

RE: Promise Ultra66

1999-07-27 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 2:18 PM To: Roeland M.J. Meyer Cc: Thomas Willert; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Raid Mailing List Subject: RE: Promise Ultra66 On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: I just saw 4.5GB SCSI-UW drives, at Fry's, for $168US. How much disk space

RE: Promise Ultra66

1999-07-27 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: Yes and no. You get bigger space, but suffer in throughput and utility. Thre 4.5GB SCSI-U2, on a AHA-2940, make a much faster and more reliable disk-set than the same thing in UDMA. The normal performance vs space trade-off seems to apply here.

Promise Ultra66

1999-07-26 Thread Thomas Willert
Hi again! I am planning to buy a Promise Ultra66 EIDE controller and 4 EIDE disks. Have anyone had experiences with this Promise controller when using it with Linux RAID? Regards, Thomas Willerthttp://willert.dk/ Bachstrasse 108a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] D - 22083 Hamburg