Fedora Core 3 and Promise TX 2000

Rob Hall robslists at digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk
Wed Dec 15 13:02:47 UTC 2004


Hi,

I've been trying to get the lastest dmraid (dmraid 1.0.0-rc5f) working with my 
Promise TX 2000 under Fedora Core 3 without success. I have a 3 disk Raid 0 
connected to the TX and dmraid fails to identify disks 2 and 3 of the Raid 
set. The disks are hde, hdg and hdh. hdk is a single drive, connected to the 
mainboard's Promise controller, which runs the Fedora install. The machine 
concerned is a Dual AMD MP 2800+ running a Gigabyte GA7-DPXDW mainboard. 
DMRaid, uname and lspci can be found below.

NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/hdd
NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/hdc
NOTICE: /dev/hde: hpt37x discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hde: hpt45x discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hde: isw    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hde: lsi    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hde: nvidia discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hde: pdc    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hde: pdc metadata discovered
NOTICE: /dev/hde: sil    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdg: hpt37x discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdg: hpt45x discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdg: isw    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdg: lsi    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdg: nvidia discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdg: pdc    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdg: sil    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdh: hpt37x discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdh: hpt45x discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdh: isw    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdh: lsi    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdh: nvidia discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdh: pdc    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdh: sil    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdk: hpt37x discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdk: hpt45x discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdk: isw    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdk: lsi    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdk: nvidia discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdk: pdc    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/hdk: sil    discovering
DEBUG: _find_set: searching pdc_diggiaha
DEBUG: _find_set: not found pdc_diggiaha
NOTICE: added /dev/hde to RAID set "pdc_diggiaha"
DEBUG: checking pdc device "/dev/hde"
DEBUG: set status of set "pdc_diggiaha" to 2
DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "pdc_diggiaha"
DEBUG: freeing device "pdc_diggiaha", path "/dev/hde"
No Software RAID sets

Linux XXXXXX 2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Nov 18 15:19:10 EST 2004 i686 
athlon i386 GNU/Linux

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] System 
Controller (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] AGP 
Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 05)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE (rev 
04)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703X Gigabit 
Ethernet (rev 02)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 05)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT] 
(rev a1)
02:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] USB (rev 
07)
02:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
02:04.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 
04)
02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
02:05.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:05.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:05.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
02:06.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20271 (FastTrak 
TX2000) (rev 02)
02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0d)
02:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20276 (MBFastTrak133 
Lite) (rev 01)

-- 
Best regards,
 Rob Hall - Red Hat Certified Engineer
 Technical Team Leader
 Newsquest Digital Media
 




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