[Centos] SATA RAID Card

Tue Sep 21 14:34:59 UTC 2004
Pierre-Francois Honore <pfhonore at cea.fr>

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 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...
-- 
Pierre-Francois Honore <pfhonore at cea.fr>