Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 118857
Fedora: Promise fasttrack133 (20276) RAID 0 unsupported
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:38 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: When I try to install the Fedora Project Core 1 on my computer, the program display an error when the partitionning screen appears, saying that the partition table is unreadable. I already have 3 NTFS partitions on my hard drives, one with Windows XP installed. The problem seems to be that my RAID controller is not recognized by Fedora. I tried the drivers offered by MSI and Promise for Red Hat 9 (because nothing was made to support Fedora, and I read they don't plan to..) but they didn't work. I found the source code of a patch for another kernel version, but still it might help: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.2/0237.html My configuration: -Motherboard: MSI KT3 Ultra (Promise RAID adapter Fasttrack133 (20276) onBoard) -CPU: Athlon XP 2200+ -2x maxtor HD 40G 7200(RAID 0) It would be great to have a kernel patch that we could use on the Fedora installation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.22 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get a computer with my configuration 2. Try to install Fedora Core 1 Actual Results: The RAID controller is not supported and the partitions are unreadable. Expected Results: Support of the RAID controller Promise FastTrack133 (20276) with Fedora Core 1.
I also have the same Promise Raid chipset 20276 on my Asus A7V333 mobo. In the past, I've had to compile a new driver disk each time I wanted to install the latest version of RH. Now that I've tried to install FC2-Test2, I find that it still isn't supported so I went to compile a new driver disk. I installed FC2-Test2 on a different computer and started to do what I had to do before. However, the driver source code from Promise will no longer compile correctly with the new 2.6 kernel. Here is the URL to the source code that I used to make driver disks before: http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp? productId=8&category=driver&os=4 I have never seen full support for my Promise Raid controller in any linux distribution. It would definitely be nice to see, after all these years of having trouble, Fedora Core 2 correctly identify my Promise chipset during install and have it work without any extra steps. I have seen many, many posts on several message boards about people having a hard time installing linux on many Promise raid cards. I think it is about time for linux (starting with FC2) to fully support Promise raid chipsets right from the start.
I also have PDC20276 and in FC1 or test2FC2 the installation recognizes RAID controller as standard IDE controller, and my RAID0 configured HDDs wrongly as two separate hdds. I played with FreeBSD/OpenBSD and both correctly recognized RAID on this promise hw raid controller, so this should not be difficult to implement. Would really be great...
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