Re: BF24 and Promise Fasttrack problem

[Yann Lollivier <yann.lollivier@synteleya.com>]

Hi,

I tried it, it did  work...After a wee trick :

Actually I can see 10 different hex numbers, on five lines :

0xd000 [0xd007]
0xd400 [0xd403]
0xd800 [0xd807]
0xdc00 [0xdc03]
0xe000 [0xe03f]

I tried your magic formula with the first set of number (without brackets), 
and it just reduced my screen to a very narrow one...So I disabled 'set IRQ 
for VGA'  in bios and it worked perfect !!!

Many thanks, I was going depressive about that...

By the way, what are those numbers exactly ? might be obvious for you but 
I'm a kind of newbie...

Yann

At 01:05 06/08/2002 +0000, Meir Kriheli wrote:
> On Thursday 01 August 2002 14:38, yann.lollivier@synteleya.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying without success to install the bf24 flavour on a server
> > containing a Promise Fasttrack 100 Raid Card. I've got 2 disk on linked to
> > the raid card, so I created a RAID1 array and enabled raid support in BIOS.
> > I cannot install debian as the installation process does not detect any
> > hard drive, however this card is supposed to be supported by the 5.4
> > kernel...and is also apparently known to cause problems with bf24. Anyone
> > has a workaround on that ?
>
> Seems that bf24 cannot pick it autmatically (while Gentoo's kernel on the
> install cd picked it up with no problems). Here's what you should do:
>
> In a terminal window (alt+f2 or alt+f3 can't remember) run:
>
> cat /proc/pci
>
> and look for the info about the PDC controller. As part of the info you'll 
> see
> 5 hex numbers listed one after the other, let's name the (a)-(e)
>
> Write down the numbers, reboot the install cd again and at the boot prompt
> write:
>
> bf24 ide2=0x(a),0x(b+2) ide3=0x(c),0x(d+2)
>
> b+2 means the value of b incremented by 2, and same applies to d+2.
>
> Now the controller and raid should be detected.
>
> This is from memory, so tell me how it goes
>
> > More, Promise FastTack is not a real HW Raid, does someone knows how it
> > compares to software Raid (performance, fault tolerance...) ? If it's as
> > good I might go for it..
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yann
>
> I was very disappointed by it. While working I pulled the plug on one of the
> hd's (RAID1 config) to simulate a dying HD, lot of timeout message started
> appearing and the systems froze. Once restarted the system didn't boot.
>
> I bought a real IDE Raid soultion (LSI Logic), and it is awesome (although a
> bit expansive). It handled to dying hd trick with no problems, after a short
> pause the system continued working normally. When re-connected the power it
> started rebuilding the array automatically, I was very pleased by it.
>
> HTH
> --
> Meir Kriheli
>
>
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