Promise Fastrack 378 S-ATA driver?

John Hearns john.hearns at clustervision.com
Thu Nov 13 20:08:20 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 20:41, Matthew Walburn wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> I have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard that I'm trying to get to 
> play nice with Fedora. This motherboard uses the Promise 378 TX2plus 
> S-ATA chip. While Fedora's kernel doesn't appear to have support built 
> in, Promise does offer driver disk downloads for Redhat 9. Am out of 
> luck with Fedora 1 or is there actually a way to get this working?
Strangely enough, I've been fighting with a Promise TX2 raid controller
all day.
I got the partial driver from:
http://www.promise.com/support/file/driver/5_ftsrc-b25.tgz

The upshot from me is that they provide a half-assed solution,
of some code plus a library.

The library is built against 2.4.20, and although I could build
against a 3.4.21 I couldn't force an install of FastTrak.o

I will bow to the superior knowledge of others, and would be interested
in a good answer also for getting 






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