New bios 845E Max2 is out

Just notice from the msi web site that the new bios version 5.4 is now out for 845E Max2 mobo.

Hi ArbalestPang,
You can email MSI tech support as often as you want but I do think they are either too busy to response or just ignore any support request emails. I have tried couple times to email them some of my minor problems related to this mobo I have and so far I got no response from them.
By the way, the new Bios still have not fix the problem for system hungs during warm boot if you oc the FSB from 100 to 133.
Regards,
Ed

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I Must have linux redhat 7.3 support for onboard
PROMISE IDE RAID -- if it was clearly supported I
could build a serious web farm or render farm with
this nicely priced powerhouse of a motherboard.
I emailed MSICOMPUTER.com to see if they support it since web site has no
specific mention of Linux Redhat 7.3 support.
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Originally posted by wystewart
Check
http://www.linux-ide.org/
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Thanks. Here is were I am up to (see my question at the end).
I. I received rhup-ftb22.zip from the people at promise.com who promised that they can't support
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1.02.0.22up
FT-ioctl.txt
install
modinfo
modules.cgz
modules.dep
pcitable
readme.txt
rhdd-6.1
setup-ft
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----- snip ------
FastTrak Series Linux Driver Version 1.02.0.22
Installation Note for RedHat Linux [06/27/2002]
[INTRODUCTION]
1.1 Foreword
This driver diskette should be used with all Promise FastTrak Series
adapter and onboard chipsets running under RedHat Linux operating
systems.
Do NOT use this diskette for other versions of Linux for FastTrak
support.
NOTE: For FastTrak users with Promise chips labelled PDC20265R or PDC20270
(FastTrak100 Lite motherboard-embedded solutions or FastTrak100TX2)
running with Linux kernel versions 2.4.x, be aware of additional
instructions to be performed.
See Item 1.3 below for description of the issue which use of the
driver and instructions solves.
1.2 Support List
PDC20262 FastTrak66
PDC20265R FastTrak100 Lite
PDC20267 FastTrak100
PDC20270 FastTrak LP/TX2/TX4
PDC20271 FastTrak TX2000
PDC20276 MBFastTrak133 Lite
PDC20277 SBFastTrak133 Lite
with
Red Hat 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16-22)
Red Hat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2-2)
Red Hat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10)
Red Hat 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3)
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motherboard-embedded solution/FastTrak100TX2) cards and/or chips as simple
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commands referred to in the Notes section.
This called "IDE issue."
[INSTALLATION]
Extract the contents of the ZIP file on to a formatted floppy disk.
(ZIP file can be extracted by `WinZIP' in windows or `unzip' in linux)
Label the disk "FastTrak Driver Disk".
2.1 To install the FastTrak Series Linux Driver into an EXISTING SYSTEM:
1.) Boot linux system and login as root.
2.) Insert FastTrak Driver Disk for install FastTrak Driver by issuing
commands :
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
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You can answer Yes to load FastTrak driver when linux booting everytime.
# cd ..
# umount /dev/fd0
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'ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0' in
/etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf.
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1.) Start the RedHat Linux Installation with CD ROM booting.
2.) At the "Welcome to Red Hat Linux ..." installation screen, a
prompt labeled "boot:" will appear at the bottom of the screen.
3.) If you are in "IDE issue", please press TAB key and append parameters
(see Note 1 below).
--- OR ---
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at the "boot:" prompt, then press the enter key.
4.) At the "Devices" dialog box, insert the FastTrak Driver Disk in the
floppy drive and then select "OK" or "Yes".
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5.) After reaching the "Devices" dialog box again, select "Add Device".
6.) When asked "what kind of device would you like to add?", select
"SCSI", and then select "OK".
7.) Press the "P" key and scroll down to "Promise FastTrak Series ....",
and then select "OK".
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Linux Driver" has been found. Select "Done".
9.) If you are in "IDE issue", when the Boot Loader Configuration menu
is displayed, please type parameters (see NOTE 2 below) in the Kernel
parameters field.
--- OR ---
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11.) If installing RedHat 7.2 or Update Linux to RedHat 7.1/7.2/7.3.
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Other RedHat version please click "Exit" button to finish installation.
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driver.
# chroot /mnt/sysimage
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
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[NOTE]
1.) "expert ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0
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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Then after clean shutdown, I removed ths drive from
the IDE connector and moved it to the first RAID IDE
conenctor. Then I added an identical blank drive to the
second RAID IDE connector. The boot process guided
me to select between "Performance" mode (striping)
versus "Security" mode (mirroring). I selected mirroring
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one will ever have noticed a problem.
Upon reboot, it started to clear boot but locked up
within a few seconds after starting to spew boot messages.
I would have expected that Linux would have recognized the RAID array as some standard
supported SCSI drive.
I guessed the promise engineers didn't think of
adding a BIOS option to force the chip to emulate
some simple cheap reliable SCSI drive (maybe the next
motherboard support chip), so I imagined that I would
have to make sure PDC20276 (MBFastTrak133 Lite)
support is added.
Then I returned the drive to the IDE (non-RAID) port,
rebooted successfully, unzipped rhup-ftb22.zip into
a directory and ran the following command:
# sh install
Looking at install, it seems to take a peak in
the following directory:
/lib/modules
and sees the name "2.4.18" in mine just to figure
out where to copy "FastTrak.o" (/lib/modules/.../kernel/drivers/scsi in my case).
Then it determines that /etc/lilo.conf is not there
and confirms that /boot/grub/grub.conf exists and
append the following text to the "kernel" line:
ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0
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FastTrak
scsi_mod
sd_mod
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first RAID port, adding second blank identical IDE drive
to second RAID port?
BEFORE DOING THAT: Before trying, for fun, I added two blanks to the RAID ports and booted from the IDE
(non-RAID), yes three IDE drives altogether.
Here is what I now see in the dmesg:
---- 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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