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Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

DISCUSSION Andre Hedrick 3 participants 3 messages Apr 12, 2001 – Apr 13, 2001 1 message not in the archive

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Stephen,

Sorry but that is a closed source driver and you have to goto Promise, LOL. Last time I talked to them they sent me an email virus that choked a drive. Scan your mail first and then count your fingers if you have to shake hands with somebody their....

Andre Hedrick
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Andre,

I have searched everywhere for some help getting my Promise FrastTrack/100 Raid controller working. I finally found the ft.o driver on the Promise website and have gotten it installed correctly (I think), but I can NOT get fdisk to recognize the drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
-Stephen Woodbridge

Here is what I have done so far:

RedHat 6.2
Linux 2.2.18
(No other scsi devices in system)

I added to /etc/conf.modules
alias block-major-8 ft
and copied the ft.o to /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi
and did the depmod -a
and rebooted

(after boot) ...
[root@linus /root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by

lockd                  44688   0  (autoclean) (unused)
sunrpc                 58820   0  (autoclean) [lockd]
3c509                   5996   1  (autoclean)
tulip                  31888   1  (autoclean)
es1371                 25920   0
soundcore               2596   4  [es1371]

[root@linus /root]# fdisk /dev/sda # tried repeatedly

Unable to open /dev/sda

[root@linus /root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by

ft                     71048   0  (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod               38372   1  (autoclean) [ft]
lockd                  44688   0  (autoclean) (unused)
sunrpc                 58820   0  (autoclean) [lockd]
3c509                   5996   1  (autoclean)
tulip                  31888   1  (autoclean)
es1371                 25920   0
soundcore               2596   4  [es1371]

[root@linus /root]#

When fdisk tried to access /dev/sda the module was loaded and the following banner shows up on the console:

TastTrack Driver v1.10 build 3 (06.OCT.2000) scsi0 : FASTTRACK
scsi : 1 host
Vendor: Promise Model: 1x2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev 1.10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: Promise Model: 1x2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev 1.10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: Promise Model: 1x2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev 1.10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: Promise Model: 1x2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev 1.10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

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FrastTrack/100 Raid controller working. I finally found the ft.o driver

Did you try building it from source? Their docs say beta ft.o is RH 6.2-7.0 which would make me a bit nervous.

ftp://ftp.promise.com/Controllers/IDE/FastTrak100/Linux/LinuxBETA/

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FrastTrack/100 Raid controller working. I finally found the ft.o driver

Did you try building it from source? Their docs say beta ft.o is RH 6.2-7.0 which would make me a bit nervous.

ftp://ftp.promise.com/Controllers/IDE/FastTrak100/Linux/LinuxBETA/

They dont supply most of the source, just get a different controller.