Re: Promise hard disk controllers
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Does anyone know of a Linux driver for the "Promise FastTrak TX2" hard
> disk controller card ?
There isn't one that I'm aware of.
> A '.o' binary is offered which is supposed to run on RedHat 7.0, but I
> don't know how to use it with Debian.
That binary driver should not be trusted - it's been known to cause data
corruption.
> When I put the binary into /lib/modules and load it, I get an error
> which says that the driver was compiled with an older kernel and won't
> run.
That's not surprising - it's built for the 2.2.16 included with RH7.0 :)
You could force the loading of the module with "insmod -f <modulename>",
however.
> There is no access to source provided by Promise to rebuild it for the
> new kernel. Help!
Oh! I see it's a FastTrak. Return it (if you can) and get an Ultra100
(non-TX2) off eBay - if you choose not to use the very dangerous
Promise-provided driver the FastTraks don't work worth a crap as a RAID
controller with non-Windows operating systems.
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