Promise Raid

VampyreUK · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 51 Location: UK

Hi,

I currently use SuSE 8.x but I am looking for something better (maybe?) :-)

I've tried a lot of distro's and chose SuSE because it supported my onboard promise raid controller ... I have two 30Gb HD's on it giving me a 60Gb drive and most distro's see it as two distinct drives however SuSE does not (see's it as a single raid drive)!

So the question is does Gentoo easily support my hardware i.e. promise raid and Nvidia GeForce 2 MX .. I suspect most other things will be fine :-)

Thanks

VampyreUK

mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

For NVidida you're OK, no problems there.

As for Promise raid it is supported in the kernel. You have to check 2 options in the kernel under IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices:

The module for the raid is called pdcraid.

Don't know if the installation CD has support compiled in for promise and the raid module, I can check it later if you won't get an answer.
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Guest · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 12:28 pm Post subject: What I Am Trying To Achieve :-)

Hi MKSoft,

> For NVidida you're OK, no problems there.

OK :-)

> As for Promise raid it is supported in the kernel. You have to check 2
> options in the kernel under IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices:
> PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67|68|69|70} support
> Support Promise software RAID (Fasttrak(tm))
> The module for the raid is called pdcraid.

Assume I'm a beginner ... what do you mean by "check"?

Please bear in mind I have been mentally damaged by serious exposure to MS (I'm an MCSE) so sometimes I just don't understand things despite around half a year of "mucking around" with Linux :-)

> Don't know if the installation CD has support compiled in for promise
> and the raid module, I can check it later if you won't get an answer.

Admittedly it isn't of vast importance in the short term as I will install it on a spare portable I have AND the system with the raid also has a removable drive which I use to override the main system (currently SuSE) so I can use Linux, Win2K or Me as I like.

I might as well tell you what I'm trying to achieve ... I am very much trying to migrate all my stuff over to Linux. Working in IT I have lots of machines, a home network (currently based around a Win2K server but eventually to migrate to Linux too) and more two portables. I don't dislike MS OS's but I do dislike it's licensing schemes plus I also consider learning *nix a good career choice and my employer/line manager is prepared to help me with that. My primary requirement is to handle e-mail (I want to use evolution), web development (I run two web sites at present), mp3/video playing and mp3 creation, word-processing and browsing (both in particular used for debating on the net in discussion forums). The word processor/browser aspect is particularly important since I use a word processor for ease of use (over the discussion forum's text entry box) so the key components are a UK spell-checker that works (there are bugs in OpenOffice), cut & paste (from WP to WWW & vice versa), saving to a common format (by which I mean MS compatible and I have chosen RTF since it can contain no macro's ... all my documents are stored in this format) and a mail facility that can handle (independently) 5 or more e-mail accounts not necessarily on the same ISP. All Internet access is by proxy (currently Jana Server but soon to be some kind of Internet equivalent!

Phew!

VampyreUK

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