Description of Problem: When trying to install RedHat 7.1 on my system I boot from the RedHat 7.1 CD. I choose expert mode to be able to install the kernel module for the FastTrak controller (ftp.promise.com/Controllers/IDE/Linux/). When the kernel starts booting and probing my PCI cards it detects the FastTrack controller as a PDC20262 controller (without RAID capability). As soon as it then starts probing the hd's attached to the controller there are two cases: 1 there is a Raid build on the disks: the system will hang and a cold reboot is needed to be able to access the disks again 2 there is no raid build on the disks, the kernel will continue booting but I am not able to choose from a list of controllers after I have inserted the driver disk. The program does an automatic search (rescan?) of the pci bus but does not load the module. In a further step in the installation (fdisk) it reports bad disks and wants to format them. How Reproducible: I tried to remove all other pci cards, no difference. I also tried different pci slots, no difference either. Steps to Reproduce: 1. put a promise FastTrak controller in your system 2. attach a disk to the contoller (or two to build a raid) 3. boot from the RedHat 7.1 installation cd Actual Results: installation on these disks is not possible system hang when raid is build no partitions detected when no raid is build Expected Results: a nice and clean install of this new RedHat release
The Promise binary-only, propriatry, module is NOT supported. Please report this bug to Promise, not to us. There is nothing we can do to help/fix this, as Promise refuses to cooperate and/or release sourcecode. (The module also eats your disks, but that it not my problem). Having said that: I'm working on an opensource version that does support the Promise RAID format.