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Subject:    RE: driver for Promise PDC 20276 on Gigabyte 8IXRP mb?
From:       Paul Barrette <barrettep () rogers ! com>
Date:       2002-05-18 0:13:34
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Hi,
ya, that is what I thought about promise.  But I sent a msg off to asus
since it is really in their court with the asic on  the mobo.

I had ata raid but the performance was worse than the scsi emu ft mod. 
I then installed as a reg. hd and the performance is much better than
ever.  E.g. my time dd example was done in 47 sec. Which is about 2x as
fast.


On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 09:01, Anton Resnick wrote:
> You are not going to find a driver from Promise for 7.3 for awhile. 7.3 uses
> the 2.4.18-x kernel, and Promise have only released drivers for <=7.2.
> 
> If you want to use a drive on that controller, I would suggest plugging in
> your HD into 1 of your regular IDE ports, installing 7.3. Rebuilding kernel
> with support for IDE raid ( I would build the promise stuff into the
> kernel ), and then building your lilo with /dev/ataraid/d0p1 ( I assume )
> for the new kernel build.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ataraid-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@redhat.com]On
> Behalf Of Randall J. Parr
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:50 PM
> To: Ataraid-list@redhat.com
> Subject: driver for Promise PDC 20276 on Gigabyte 8IXRP mb?
> 
> Installation on my new system with a Gigabyte 8IXRP motherboard fails
> because it does not detect any hard drives.
> 
> The Gigabyte 8IXRP has an on-board Promise PDC 20276 RAID controller.
> 
> I need to find / create a driver disk for the Promise PDC 20276 that I
> can use to install RedHat 7.3.
> 
> Gigabyte's site only lists Windows drivers for PCD 20276
> 
> The Promise site has a marketing page about the PCD 20276 but no links
> to drivers.
> 
> The Promise site has a Linux area but all access is via a list of
> Promise retail products. The list does not include any of links for MB
> embedded products.
> 
> Is there a driver available?
> 
> Can I use the driver for one of the retail products? Which one?
> FastTrak100 TX, ...?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> R.Parr
> Temporal Arts
> 
> 
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