[olug] Promise FastTrak 100

[Brandon Lederer]

I am sure I am running hardware raid.... my partitions are on
/dev/ataraid/d0p1, d0p2, d0p3, etc.... i just Broke it and rebuilt it with
the FastTrak utility on the FastTrak100 Bios.

the OS also lists the drives /dev/hde and /dev/hdg... and lists their
respective partitions, which are IDENTICAL (cuz I am doing mirroring)....
but I am using /dev/ataraid/d0p1, etc in fstab.  To my knowledge this piece
does not exist Onboard any motherboard, this is not the HIGHPOINT controller
or promise Lite (which is just software raid).  It is the FastTrak100 TX2,
hardware RAID controller card.  System is rebuilding the array at the
moment, so I cant list the number.  but there is SPECIFICALLY a driver in
the vanilla kernel for Promise FastTrak controllers.

This doesnt help me with monitoring it though... (which was why I broke the
array in the first place to see how the system would respond........ It hard
locked :( )


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Peterson [mailto:mpeterson at mail.charlesfurniture.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 6:05 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Promise FastTrak 100


You are not running RAID with this setup.
According to another OLUG member and testing I have done with this
controller it only works true RAID with Windows.
If your OS sees /dev/hde and /dev/hdg you are seeing each individual
unmirrored drive part.
If you setup partitions on both drives and one fails you will lose the
partitions on that drive.
To be RAID you need to only see one drive.
Only specific releases of Red Hat have drivers for the controller and may
use it with true RAID.
I have not found the new releases to work other than to see 2 drives like
you did.
I am disabling the controller on my system since it is built in and going to
using a 3ware card to do RAID.
I have tested 3ware for over 1 year now and at least 2 other OLUG members
use
it for work RAID applications needs.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Lederer" <brandonl at hms4emc.com>
To: "'Omaha Linux User Group'" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 5:56 PM
Subject: RE: [olug] Promise FastTrak 100


> I stand corrected there is a /dev/hde and a /dev/hdg.  they exist and have
> the partitions and everything.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Peterson CoxMail [mailto:mpeterson at charles.omhcoxmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 9:23 AM
> To: 'Omaha Linux User Group'
> Subject: RE: [olug] Promise FastTrak 100
>
>
> What distribution of Linux are you running?
> When you setup the RAID mirroring on the card did the Linux install see
one
> drive or two for you to use?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Brandon Lederer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 8:48 AM
> To: 'olug at olug.org'
> Subject: [olug] Promise FastTrak 100
>
>
> Recently set one of these up on a headless "Remote" local server.  It sits
> in a closet and doesnt get touched.  The HDD's are configured in RAID
> mirroring.  My question.  How can I know that a hard drive has failed, so
I
> can replace it.  Windows tells you that an array is in "critical" or
> something.  How does Linux do notification on this.
>
> Thanks
> Brandon
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