[rhn-users] Promise TX4200 Drivers

[Juels, Philip]

Speaking of SATA RAID controllers...has anyone been able to get RHAS v3 or v4 to
recognize the Marvell (Adaptec) 88SX5040?  I've got Supermicro P4SCT+II
motherboard with one of these 4-port SATA RAID controllers.  Is this onboard
controller a fully hardware RAID device or is it like the Promise one below?

Thanks,

Phil Juels

-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Doerbeck, Christoph
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 10:05 AM
To: Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Promise TX4200 Drivers


IMHO .... on the promise raid mess ...

The RAID implementation of promise cards is a software solution, no
different than
the LINUX native RAID stuff...  You're not getting any hardware RAID
computation
offload.  The only advantage of using the promise stuff is that when the
system boots, 
the BIOS can play some games to determine if a disk is dead and
automatically boot 
the alternate disk.

Please correct me if I'm wrong... The last time I looked at promise was
a while 
ago.

I chose to turn off the RAID features and simply use the device as a 
normal disk interface (using Linux RAID instead).  Now I am not
dependant
on kernel updates and driver compatibility.  That's a BIG deal in my
opinion.

Are my opinions/impressions of the Promise stuff out of line?

Christoph

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Davis [mailto:jerichodee at qwest.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 8:06 PM
To: rhn-users at redhat.com
Subject: [rhn-users] Promise TX4200 Drivers


Hi there,
I've tried the Promise TX4200 Raid drivers with the RHEL4.
The Redhat 9 drivers don't work and I can't seem to compile the Linux
Source code drivers.  Can someone help me compile these drivers on
kernel 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL-i686 ?

I am new to this and I can't seem to figure it out.
Thanks

Jeff

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