Promise/Adaptec RAID Card?

[hndpaul]

Hi all!

I'm upgrading my Mandrake machine and wanted to know whether the Promise or Adaptec RAID cards are fully supported in Linux, and if there were any issues I should know about beforehand.

I prefer the look of the Promise card (cheaper), and because it has four slots for hard drives. I'm really looking at installing four 41GB IBM hard drives--is there any reason this wouldn't work and will Mandrake detect this set up at install time??

The configuration will be:

AMD Athlon 1.4GHz DDR
1024MB DDR RAM
32MB Geforce2MX AGP graphics
Promise RAID Controller (PCI)
x4 IBM 41GB Hard Drives

Mandrake 8.0/8.1

Thanks for any help/advice. The machine will be running as a file/print server, intranet/web server, firewall and Proxy for around 250 clients running light services.

Thanks again!

Paul, UK

[slacker_x]

I know my computer works with linux. I think you should just give that "untested" computer to me :-P

If you already have the hardware and software, just give it a try.

Good luck

[Mulchman MM]

When I was using a promise card I had to use boot parameters (ide0=foo, ide1=foo) until I got a kernel patch to support the card.

W/O the boot params or the kernel patch, I'd get an error message and it wouldn't boot.

[visgoth]

Kernel 2.4.10 has drivers that work with my fasttrak66 (formerly an ultra66 but with the help of a resistor it's now raid :D ) Works good in raid0 mode for me, don't know about raid1.