Promise or Highpoint IDE card?

[Ben Compton]

Is there any IDE RAID card that Linux likes?  I have a Promise FastTrak66
that runs fine under RedHat 8.0 but I'd love to upgrade to Fedora and Fedora
doesn't like the last drivers released for that card from Promise...they
refuse to load during the install.  I'm willing to buy a new card but IDE
RAID is a must.

Ben C.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Rene Cormier [mailto:jean-rene.cormier at cipanb.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, 31 March, 2004 8:24 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Promise or Highpoint IDE card?


On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:35, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 31.03.2004 schrieb Brian Chase um 03:43:
> > I disagree, the first upgrade you do with your kernel, you won't see 
> > the
> > hard drive, stay away from Promise products with Linux, they admit they 
> > have poor or no support for Linux and are software RAID.
> > 
> > Here's a good blurb on SATA adapters, a little off topic, but 
> > relevant to
> > support and general Linux compatibility.
> > 
> > 	http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > BC
> 
> But in this special case - for which the OP asked: just plain parallel 
> IDE usage, no RAID, no SATA - both cards are supported by driver 
> modules offered by the kernel, no third party modules from vendors 
> needed. Or do I err?

If it's just plain parallel IDE, then the Promise Ultra TX2 cards are
probably the best card you can get, they were supported by the kernel for
quite some time and they're really cheap. I have one in a computer and I use
software RAID-1 with it and it works great. At half the price of a
FastTrack, you can't go wrong with them.

Jean-Rene Cormier



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