[Discuss] SATA RAID & Opteron

[David Bronaugh]

Alan Wardroper wrote:
> Got an esoteric incomatibility:
> Custom built machines w/ dual dual-core Opterons and a Promise RAID 
> card has
> binary drivers available (for Suse and RHEL).
> Can't get the RAID recognised at all -- some googling suggested the 
> driver
> will only work on 2.4.x (I think even more specific than that--2.4.18 
> only)
> ut I'm trying to install a 2.6.x kernel.
> I's a Promse Fasttrak XT4300 card. Fedora 5 as drivers that claim to 
> be able
> to work with it, but no luck so far. I've also tried Knoppix and Kubuntu,
> and then tried CentOS as it's essentially RHEL4 underneath. No go.
> So far no luck from promise tech support...
> RAIS is working, and I even partitioned it out fine in partition 
> magic. But
> nothing I do can get it recognised in Linux.
>
> Any suggestions? Any suggestions for another card that might work better?
That seems like a pretty useless card -- RAID0/1/10 and nothing else.

Why not just use it as a 4-port SATA card, and use Linux software RAID 
to do RAID5 or something like that?

David