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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (Sorry for the delay, I mailed this long ago from a dialup account in Thailand, but it got deferred as spam, and then I changed ISPs.) Thanks to Calvin Dodge and Robert A. Vincent II for their feedback. Fortunately, I've learned a little more since I first wrote this summary. On Saturday 11 January 2003 04:02 pm, Jason Smith wrote: > What started as a simple task is turning into a days-long frustration. The > issue is that I'm trying to use a Maxtor ATA133 IDE controller card for use > in software RAID. These cards us a Promise PDC20269 chip version 2.20 B10. > > It seems like whatever I do, I can't get linux to grok this card. Okay, as I suspected, I actually had a hardware problem with the PCI on the motherboard. I plugged the computer in to a 220V system after shipping from America (110V), and let the magic smoke out of the power supply. I replaced it, but apparently, the motherboard took a hit too, but only on the PCI system, as I didn't notice until now. Everything is working find, and the cards are performing well. A few comments: * You may want to tell the kernel "idex=ata66" for each ide controller (2 per card) to force this mode. Note: this actually enables all ata66, ata100, ata133, etc. * This driver should not be confused with the Promise Fasttrak product, which is an ATA RAID controller, which comes with a proprietary kernel module that "only runs on Red Hat 7.3 and earlier." I don't have this card, so I don't know much more. There's an ATA-RAID-HOWTO at http://www.murty.net/ataraid/ * PDC20269 reports all drives are in PIO mode, but (at least) using hdparm, they actually are using udma. * _Always_ remember: v = ir, p = vi. - -- Jason Smith Open Enterprise Systems Bangkok, Thailand -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+QhqOm5qEoSbpT3kRAoldAJ9GmhsLADwiBvNndJbcBQBwgqjS3ACeKKiu 19NovmgJyd2QobpviU8B57Q= =8AYk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ LinuxManagers mailing list - http://www.linuxmanagers.org submissions: LinuxManagers@linuxmanagers.org subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.linuxmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxmanagers
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