anyone have experiences installing SATA raid card with CentOS/RHEL? I am considering Promise FastTrak S150 Tx2 plus, FastTrack 2200 or FastTrack S150 Sx4
Which one of these ( or any othe brand) can ensure smooth install of CentOS without problems, thanks.
:)Harris LIU
Find one compatible with RHEL 3 and it SHOULD be compatible with centos 3..RHEL 2.1= CentOS 2
Harris wrote:
anyone have experiences installing SATA raid card with CentOS/RHEL? I am considering Promise FastTrak S150 Tx2 plus, FastTrack 2200 or FastTrack S150 Sx4
Which one of these ( or any othe brand) can ensure smooth install of CentOS without problems, thanks.
:)Harris LIU
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On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:42:17 +0800 "Harris" harris@linda-harris.net disait:
anyone have experiences installing SATA raid card with CentOS/RHEL? I am considering Promise FastTrak S150 Tx2 plus, FastTrack 2200 or FastTrack S150 Sx4
Which one of these ( or any othe brand) can ensure smooth install of CentOS without problems, thanks.
i've experienced the TX2, and it's not smooth. Lot of crashes (kernel oops, panic). Not a"real" SATA RAID controller ... experimental driver, for me it's not way! ( Dell does not include the card into their RAID poweredge 400SC because ( i think ) of these problem. They prefer include the PERC sata 100 RAID 4ch and this last one works with no problems)
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:59:34 +0200 Martin Hamant mh@accelance.fr disait:
They prefer include the PERC sata 100 RAID 4ch and this last one works with no problems)
Sorry ! it's not PERC SATA, it's CERC ATA-100 4ch.
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&...
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]
-- Pierre-Francois Honore pfhonore@cea.fr
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...
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...
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