Upgrading RH9 Kernel and Promise SATA Raid

[Simon Weller]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 01:23 pm, Eucke Warren wrote:

Hi Eucke,

You're probably not going to like my suggestion, but I'll put it forward 
anyway:

http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata.asp

3ware controllers work out of the box and I've never had any problems with 
them. 
The Promise and Highpoint controllers often use software based RAID techniques 
in the drivers themselves, hence why they refuse to open source them. 

The 3ware cards are full hardware RAID. I can just see someone is going to 
correct me here and tell me I'm wrong ;-)


I've lost at least 3 arrays using highpoint based controllers after the new 
drivers they released decided to bliz my data...very frustrating. The 3ware 
controllers have been my choice since and I have yet (touch wood) to have any 
issues with them at all...they just work.


- Si

> Hello all,
>
> I have googled and am working with Promise Tech Support...but their
> reply...thus far has not been very..."promising"...  I am, by the way,
> fighting with a Promise S150 SX4 SATA RAID controller Card and 2 drives in
> RAID1.
>
> I am running a stock RH9 kernel presently  2.4.20-8  and am trying to
> upgrade to 2.4.20-31.9...however, when I try to rpm -ivh the new kernel
> package I get the following error message:
>
> No module FastTrak found for kernal 2.4.20-31.9
> mkinitdrd failed
> error: %post (kernel - 2.4.20-31.9) scriptlet failed,  exit status 1
>
> I have tried scouring the /boot directory to see if there is a script I
> could later to point at the same driver that the stock 2.4.20-8 kernel uses
> but no good.  I have tried manually invoking the /sbin/mkinitdrd script
> with -v and -r switches to see if I could force it to prompt me for the
> missing drivers....no good.....I manually added the new Kernel to the
> grub.conf and it, of course, fails for the missing img file...or at least
> an unusable one.  I feel like I am nibbling all around this without hitting
> something meaty enough to let me see the direction I need to go.
>
> Here is what I suspect...I suspect that I may need to recompile a custom
> 31.9 kernel with the Fastrak controller....never done that
> before...so...anyone experience this pain?  What path did you take?  Any
> good walkthroughs that I have not stumbled into yet?
>
> This machine is not on the public network....yet...but is fully updated
> presently via apt-get...aside from the kernel...
>
> Your wisdom and guidance, as always, is greatly appreciated.
>
> Eucke

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Simon Weller LPIC-2
Systems Engineer
NZServers LTD
http://www.nzservers.com/
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