Promise RAID under Fedora Core 2?

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Wed May 19 19:41:38 UTC 2004


Am Mi, den 19.05.2004 schrieb Jack Howarth um 21:12:

>     Has anyone successfully setup a RAID 1 mirror on a PC
> that uses the Promise PDC20378 chipset on a Tyan Trinity
> i875p motherboard? We have been able to use the proprietary
> Linux driver from Promise with RedHat Enterprise 3WS Linux
> fine here. However according to Promise this proprietary
> driver will not be developed past Linux 2.4. Also my understanding
> is that the RAID format differs from the open-source version
> making it impossible to upgrade from the proprietary RAID drivers.
> I know that the first test release of Core2 was unable to
> recognize the Promise RAID 1 drives and am worried this will
> still be the case with the current Core 2 release of Fedora.
> Thanks in advance for any information.
>                             Jack Howarth

To be short: use Linux software RAID.

For further notes check this list's archive. The Promise controller is
no real hardware RAID and you are on the better side using the RAID
features coming with Fedora Linux. So you will not need any RAID driver.

Alexander


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