Re: promise supertrak sx6000 crashes XFree86
pascal wrote:
> Problem:
> With the card inserted in the pci-slot, Xfree86 fails to start.
> Claiming it can't find my vga-card. After removing the adapter card,
> everything works fine.
check in the bios, that your slot where you put the card in does not use
irq 11. if unsure, don't let the bios allocate irq dyanmically and set
them static.
> I already tried to insert the module provided by the kernel for promise
> cards.
> Module: pdc202xx.old
this module is wrong, its only for promise fasttrak, not the sx6k.
with sx6k, you have two possibilities:
with 2.4: you need to download the driver from promise.com, patch your
kernel-sources and recompile it. the driver is not included in vanilla,
because it is very broken. it even don't let the admin show, if a device
is failed etc. there is no other possibility to use the card under 2.4
as the vanilla kernel does not support that card at all.
with 2.6: the promise driver is not ported to 2.6; but 2.6 vanilla does
support it as a normal pci adapter. you can then use it for
software-raid via the device mapper.
in both cases: make sure you set the os-type to 'other' in the bios of
the sx6k; do not set it to linux as this makes more troubles as stay on
'other'.
and: this card is very, very slow. although it is hardware-raid with a
old and i960 epu variant, software raid is much more faster on it. using
this card, you should always use softraid on it. its faster and more
flexible.
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