MSI 845E Max2-BLR raid controller...

I've got the upper named motherboard and a big problem with the onboard raid controller. I have 2 HDDs on raid 0. I can't install linux on it. The first thing I made, was that I mailed Promise. They told me, the fault is that on the boards is only a LITE Version. Is there a way, that I can flash it to a normal controller, or am I hopeless lost???
Cya mike

you mean on an ide each for raid 0,not the same ide
lite raid purley means its got less features than full blown version on seperate card,so their comment makes no sense
ask if its a linux thing here
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/

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    Quote
    Originally posted by wystewart
    Check
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    ----- snip ------
     FastTrak Series Linux Driver Version 1.02.0.22
              Installation Note for RedHat Linux [06/27/2002]
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           PDC20265R        FastTrak100 Lite
           PDC20267         FastTrak100
           PDC20270         FastTrak LP/TX2/TX4
           PDC20271         FastTrak TX2000
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           PDC20277         SBFastTrak133 Lite
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           and then select "OK".
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           is displayed, please type parameters (see NOTE 2 below) in the Kernel
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           # sh setup-ft
           # cd /
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           # exit
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            ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0"
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            ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0"
    ----- snip ------
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    ---- snip ----
    SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
    PROMISE FastTrak Series Linux Driver Version 1.02.0.22
    scsi0 : FastTrak
      Vendor: Promise   Model: 1X2 Mirror/RAID1  Rev: 1.10
      Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
    SCSI device sda: 39062500 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB)
     sda: unknown partition table
    ---- snip -----
    FINAL COMMENT:
    Seeing the following line in the readme.txt:
           Red Hat 7.3      (kernel 2.4.18-3)
    is very comforting when my uname -a results in:
    Linux **.**.com 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002 i686 unknown
    Perhaps I should freeze my kernel at 2.4.18-3 until
    promise gives me the source code to FastTrak.o  X(
    In the words of strongbad of http://www.homestarrunner.com:
    X( What's their freakin' problem X(
    Arthur

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