[Centos] SATA RAID Card

[Martin Hamant]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:36:26 +0200
Pierre-Francois Honore <pfhonore at 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&category=All&os=4

But it's TX4000 (ata) driver ??! 

The TX2(sata) is here :

http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=107&category=All&os=4

> 
> 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...


-- 
Martin