Promise RAID Fastrack TX 2300

[honu]

I have installed Fedora core 4 on a ata drive.
I just bought a Promise RAID FastTRACK TX 2300 + 2 SATA drives.
I have been able to see both drives and set them as RAID 1 in the Raid BIOS.
Now when I get to Fedora Core 4. the card is not being recognized. Is there a driver that I can install?

[nlkrio]

your card is not a real hardware raid card it is a software raid card ,fedora and linux do not need the card you buy to set software raid fedora has its own free software,for more read http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html

[honu]

Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately I don't have sata on my motherboard...I have an old dell GX240.. I just want to use it as a file server. So I do need Fedora to recognize my card...Anyone has any success of having fedora recognize the card? Or have fedora recognize my 2 drives?

[nlkrio]

Unfortunately I donot know how promise will be recognised!

[Zombywuf]

This card is not compatible with the 2.6 linux kernel used by fedora core 4. The manufacturer provides a partially closed source driver for Redhat 9.0 and Suse 9, as well as interface source for 2.4 kernels.

[rolando]

I have installed Fedora core 4 on a ata drive.
I just bought a Promise RAID FastTRACK TX 2300 + 2 SATA drives.
I have been able to see both drives and set them as RAID 1 in the Raid BIOS.
Now when I get to Fedora Core 4. the card is not being recognized. Is there a driver that I can install?
Im in the same strugle, my plan is install redhat 9 and then install the card, and the see if fedora4 installer, upgrades my redhat installation keeping the data.

Do you guys think is a good idea?

[honu]

I actually was able to fix...well I haven't done much. I have just updated all the packages from fedora...and now it sees it!!!

[rolando]

which fedora version are you using? I did a fresh installation with fedora4 an a dell dimension 3000 and didnt recognized it, then a did a complete yum update and nothing changed, how do you know that fedora recognized it?

[honu]

I have fedora core 4. I didn't do the yum update...it didn't work for me...but I did the whole redhat network update...then it worked.

[rolando]

How you did the up2date , since i always use yum im not familiar with it