Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 & Linux

From: Danilo Godec (danci_at_agenda.si)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:40:57 +0100

Hi there!

I got me a Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 - a four port serial ATA RAID0/1
controller. Promise has a driver available in source, so I've compiled
that for my kernel.

It seems to work at first - the controller is detected, the array is
seen (as a SCSI disk). I can use fdisk on the array to make partitions.

But here the fun stops - when I try to make a filesystem on the array,
it just stalls. The whole system gets very, very slow and unresponsive
(switching a VT takes a couple of minutes) and a shutdown never completes.

Has anyone succesfully used this controller in Linux?
What about the FastTrak S150 SX4 (RAID0/1/5, hotswap, ...)?

If it matters, the motherboard is Intel SE7501BR2, disks are Maxtor...

  Thanks, D.

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