Goswin wrote:
Does anyone have the onboard Promise successfully in use on an Asus K8V board? MfG Goswin+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Goswin- Promise is GARBAGE for mirroring. I activated the Promise RAID TX2plus in my ASUS AV8 Deluxe with one SATA and one PATA in a RAID mirror mode. The status was Critical for every reboot because the mirror didn't match and had to be rebuilt. This was in DOS not Linux.What has that got to do with it working under linux amd64 at all? Linux doesn't even use the promise raid code but has to emulate it with its own code. And everybody with half a brain uses linux own software raid instead of ata raid emulations. MfG Goswin
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Goswin-Well I just got the Promise working under DOS so I have to take back what I said. I chose the Create and Initialize option first without luck and the the Create only worked.
???I have one DOS partition and one Linux partition in the mirror. My next step is to see if Promise works as a mirror under Linux as sda2.
The PATA is not in Linux only used by the Promise, at least so far. The 2.6.11 kernel is supposed to have access to the PATA allowing software raid.
My theory is if the hardware can't handle DOS then what can they do? Like winmodems for example.
I used to use md on my Thinkpad until I fried one drive. :-( Maybe I will know about Linux by tomorrow. Or tonight. editor@postscript.port5.com ----------------------AMD Athlon64 @2.4Ghz Corsair TwinX1024-3200XL @480Mhz DDR ASUS A8V Deluxe ASUS Radeon A9250Ge/Td/256 Creative SB Live WD Raptor SATA Maxtor PATA IBM/Okidata Color PostScript3 Lexmark Mono PostScript2 Debian GNU/Linux debian-amd64/pure64 sid Kernel 2.6.10 XFree86 4.3.0 Xorg X11R6.8.2 1.5 Mb DSL