I don't know why but all successfull installation reports of promise SATA raid card are referencing the FastTrak TX4000 driver Version 1.00.0.15 from 23-sep-2003. See : http://copper.matsc.kyutech.ac.jp/~yoshi/linux/sata/index_e.html and http://www.antgel.co.uk/compsci/linux/promise_raid.shtml (debian) or http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg03518.html (fedora) or http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/18/2004/02/2/124770 (suse)
So I try it and it works flawlessly since July
On the web page Promise is only advertising TX4000. But the README inside: ft-par_v1.00.0.15.zip says that it's compatible with PROMISE FastTrak TX4000/376/378/S150 TX Series.
I did not test the RAID functionalities. Each disk is inside a specific array (simily JBOD). The user just wants two independent disks.
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 09:53, Martin Hamant wrote:
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:36:26 +0200 Pierre-Francois Honore pfhonore@cea.fr disait:
FastTrak S150 TX2plus works for me on a Dell Precision WorkStation 650 running Scientific Linux 3.0.2 kernel 2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp and PROMISE driver version 1.00.0.15 from: http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=104&...
But it's TX4000 (ata) driver ??!
The TX2(sata) is here :
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=107&...
I have used a additional standard IDE drive to install, compile the module and copy the filesystems to the SATA drives.
[root]#cat /proc/scsi/ft3xx/2 PROMISE FastTrak TX4000/376/378/S150 TX Series Linux Driver Version 1.00.0.15 Adapter1 - FastTrak S150 TX2plus Array - Array[1] : 1+0 Stripe (OK) - Array[2] : 1+0 Stripe (OK) Drive - 1 : WDC WD2500JD-75GBB0 IDE1/Master 249999MB IRQ(48) UDMA5 Array[1] 3 : WDC WD2500JD-75GBB0 IDE2/Master 249999MB IRQ(48) UDMA5 Array[2]
Ok but have you ever tried to remove a hard disk, re-plug in it ? Did you do stress tests, while disks are in reconstruction state ? Anyway it's the TX4000 and it's an ATA controller so it has nothing to do with SATA ones...