Just wondering if anyone has had success installing Fedora on a system with a motherboard that utilizes a Promise FastTrak100 Lite chip? The installer does not seem to recognize it, or any of the disks attached to it. This mobo is a Soyo Dragon Plus, but I suspect that any mobo with this chip exhibits the same behavior.
Thanks. Scott
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 13:46, Scott Dahl wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has had success installing Fedora on a system with a motherboard that utilizes a Promise FastTrak100 Lite chip? The installer does not seem to recognize it, or any of the disks attached to it. This mobo is a Soyo Dragon Plus, but I suspect that any mobo with this chip exhibits the same behavior.
Scott,
The promise chips are not hardware raid, they are software raid with a bios controller. They are very problematic to set up with linux. I suggest a 3Ware 7006-2 raid card or using md raid.
--Jack
Thanks for the info.
Is it possible just to disable the "raid" functionality of the fasttrak100 at the BIOS level? Maybe just let the two disk drives be seen as two plain old ide disks when the installation program versus being in this pseudo raid 0 configuration?
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 13:46, Scott Dahl wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has had success installing Fedora on a system with a motherboard that utilizes a Promise FastTrak100 Lite chip? The installer does not seem to recognize it, or any of the disks attached to it. This mobo is a Soyo Dragon Plus, but I suspect that any mobo with this chip exhibits the same behavior.
Scott,
The promise chips are not hardware raid, they are software raid with a bios controller. They are very problematic to set up with linux. I suggest a 3Ware 7006-2 raid card or using md raid.
--Jack
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On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 16:06, Scott Dahl wrote:
Thanks for the info.
Is it possible just to disable the "raid" functionality of the fasttrak100 at the BIOS level? Maybe just let the two disk drives be seen as two plain old ide disks when the installation program versus being in this pseudo raid 0 configuration?
Scott,
On the dragon line of motherboards there should be a jumper on the motherboard that swicthes between raid configuration and just plain old IDE configuration. However, in reality, even with the raid jumper in place, the IDE slots are just that until some fastrak software is loaded which does the raid for you. So either way, unless you load fasttrak drivers, it doesnt really matter, but if you want to just change the jumper.
--Jack
Thanks!! I will try that!
-Scott
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 16:06, Scott Dahl wrote:
Thanks for the info.
Is it possible just to disable the "raid" functionality of the fasttrak100 at the BIOS level? Maybe just let the two disk drives be seen as two plain old ide disks when the installation program versus being in this pseudo raid 0 configuration?
Scott,
On the dragon line of motherboards there should be a jumper on the motherboard that swicthes between raid configuration and just plain old IDE configuration. However, in reality, even with the raid jumper in place, the IDE slots are just that until some fastrak software is loaded which does the raid for you. So either way, unless you load fasttrak drivers, it doesnt really matter, but if you want to just change the jumper.
--Jack
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