Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Paul Yeatman wrote:
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> ->>In response to your message<<-
>   --received from Roberto Sanchez--
>
> > I had to get a 2.4.21 kernel to get support for the 20276 chipset.
>
>
> I suppose you are using the testing distribution?
Actually I installed that on a Woody system.  I just did a wget for
the 2.4.21 kernel-source package and 'dpkg -i' to install.  I used
kernel-package to make the .deb of the kernel.

> Do you know that previous kernels such as 2.4.18 didn't support this
> specific chip or just that at least 2.4.21 one does?
I just know that 2.4.21 and newer have it.
> > With the kernel driver mine shows up as /dev/ataraid/d0
>
>
> Hmmm, I don't even have this directory under my /dev/ (with the stable
> distribution).  Does this get added with the testing distribution or
> some other way?
>
> Paul

It gets added (I believe) when you have configured the kernel for
RAID support.

-Roberto

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