Michael Thon <mrthon at verizon.net> wrote: > Greetings - I'm looking to put some cheap storage into my > server, which is running centos 3. > I'm looking at the Maxtor SATA/150 PCI Card and a > big maxtor sata drive. Multiple sources list this as an OEM'd Promise PDC20375 (FastTrak TX2). The kicker is the older kernel, I don't think support is included (I'll look when I have time). I've never tried patching with the GPL driver, but it should be possible on 2.4.21. > I would like to make sure that CentOS has driver for > this controller. Promise finally got enough nags that it released the driver as GPL in 2003. So it certainly builds on kernel 2.4. I've just never checked for compatibility, as I largely avoid Promise in general. > I looked in Red Hat's hardware database and did some > oogle'ing but I couldn't find any info to > confirm that this card is compatible. Any ideas where > else to look? Grab the SRPM and install it. Then cd to /usr/src/redhat/SPEC and prep the tree with "rpmbuild -bp kernel-2.4.spec". Now look in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD at the kernel tree -- either just at files for IDE, or possibly do a quick config and see if it's listed under SATA support. It will be "Promise FastTrak TX2". If I have time, I'll do so tonight. If you want absolute compatibility plus managability (and a reliability option) for a few bucks more, the 2-channel SATA 3Ware Escalade 8006-2 is under $150. Since it's going in a server, it can't hurt to have the future option of RAID-1 by merely adding another drive. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org Sent from Yahoo Mail (please excuse any missing headers)