[CentOS] Hardware RAID Controller

Tue May 10 20:55:48 UTC 2005
Harald Finnås <spamcatcher at lantrix.no>

centos-bounces at centos.org wrote on 10.05.2005 22:44:54:

> Well, that's because 98% of Promise's products sold are FRAID 
> (Fake/Free RAID).

The card I had in mind was the "real" RAID cards, i.e the SX6000. It was 
ok while RH8 was the standard and you didn't need to compile a new kernel 
(ie. you could use the Promise-supplied driver disks). They also had 
driver source for 2.4 which worked ok as long as you booted from another 
device and loaded the driver as a module.

And actually, the SX6000 worked with the I2O drivers for a little while 
with a patch supplied by Alan Cox, but after a few kernel updates I gave 
up on it.

I was in contact with Promise support about one year ago, and they told me 
that they had 2.6 drivers in beta, and that they would inform me when it 
became available. Needless to say, there's still no 2.6 drivers posted on 
their download pages.

Well, enough bitchin for now... :)

Regards,
Harald
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