Promise Fastrack100 (bad) raid

:O I have a MS6380v2 with Fastrack100 (bad) raid and bios 3.7 but the raid is very buggy it just wont Hibernate in WINXP and Hallways give me a nice and beautifull BLUE picture with an error on the raid driver ;( , the guys from promise should make a update to the bios or to the driver because I need to put my PC in Hibernate state sometimes , someone should wake up Promise on this subject don't you agree with me ?(

Hi
Before you start doing anything drastic make sure you have a full and effective backup first of the RAID array that is working.
Occasionally and over time the Controllers can become slightly unseated. Shutdown the RAID using RAID Util and remove the suspect controller. If you can't shutdown using this method - again make sure you have an effective backup handy - kick everyone off the host and power down the unit by disconnecting it from the Power Supply. If you have a can of air handy give the internal bay a good blast. If you don't give it a good blow instead or use whatever seems appropriate to you.
Reseat the controller and try again.
If this still does not work swop the FC Cables and see if the problem follows the cables. If the problem persists swop the Controllers. See if the problem follows the Controllers.
If after all this it does appear as if the Controller has failed and unless you have the SPF or SPF Late 2004 unit there won't be one available for the older unit as Apple have classed it ~VIN (Vintage). Parts available for the later models are expensive. I'm not entirely sure but it may be possible to use Controllers from a newer unit in the older model and vice/versa? To me they look to be the same thing?
If budget is an issue you may to have to scout around on the internet to see if there are usable spares available? There have been a few recent threads on the board with links to possible replacements.
Hope this helps?
Tony

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Promise 378 SATA Raid question

Can someone tell me if my SATA drives are setup correctly given the details below? The only driver that works is the FastTrak 378 (not the SATA 378 driver). I want to make sure I am taking full advantage of my SATA drives. In the Promise setup it shows them operating as "Mode U5". What is this?
Any help appreciated.
My Drive COnfiguration is as follows:
SATA Drives are on SATA3 & SATA4 (Promise 378 Controller)
(as RAID 0 for performance)
Primary IDE Master - Sony DVD/RW
Primary IDE Slave - not used
Secondary IDE Master - ASUS DVD ROM
Secondary IDE Slave - ATA 133 Drive bay (Empty)
3rd IDE Master&Slave - not used
On Board Promise settings
FastTrak 378 BIOS Ver 1.00.0.27
2+0 Stripe - Functional
HIT CTRL+F for setup and
(in the setup it shows RAID 0 Drive Array as Mode U5)
Bios Settings
Boot Device Priority
1 - Floppy
2 - ASUS DVD ROM
3 - BBS-0(RAID):FT 378 Ary 1
On Board Promise IDE - As RAID
On Chip ATA's Operation Mode - Legacy Mode
ATA Configuration - PATA only
SATA Keep enabled - no
* PATA Keep enabled - no
PATA channel selection - both
* Combined Mode Option - PATA First Channel
* SATA Ports Definition - P0-3rd/P1-4th
* Configure SATA as Raid - no
(where * is greyed out)
Bios sees both DVD ROM & Sony DVD/RW
Boot to CDROM
Start Windows 2000 install
F6
"S"
load Promise FastTrak 378 Controller
Windows 2000 setup continues...

Everything looks good to me. Like Danny said though, you will need to change Bios to "Native Mode" for the Intel controller if you ever intend to use the Serial connectors. If not you're fine.
Also it's not clear from your post if you understand that you are using the 2 SATA drives as a Raid array. This gives you better drive performance but increases the chance of losing data. MAKE REGULAR BACKUPS.
The Promise SATA drivers are for using the Serial1&2, IDE3 connectors with single/separate drives where Raid arrays are not used.

Transferring from XRaid to Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID

We have an XRaid connected by fibre to an XServe running OSX Server 10.4.11. This is being replaced by a Mac Mini running Lion Server 10.7.3 with a Promise Pegasus 12TB Raid connected to it by Thunderbolt.
What I would like some advice with is, how best to transfer all the data (approximately 3TB) off the existing XRaid and onto the new Pegasus Raid without creating problems with permissions.
The approach that I was planning to use was to attach the XRaid to a Promise SANLink and in turn connect that via Thunderbolt to the available 2nd Thunderbolt connection. I am hoping this will then display the XRaid on the the Mac Mini as well as the Promise Pegasus. I then intend to drag the data from the old XRaid to the Promise Pegasus.
Can anybody tell me whether this will work OK?
Thanks in advance.

Depending on your set-up, you could have both on your network and use Terminal to copy from on server to the other. Using the ditto command will preserve permission information. Syntax / info can be found towards the very end of this page: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.23/23.10/2310MacInTheShell/index.htm l

[SOLVED] Possibly dead hard drive or bad raid setup...

I have a 4 drive raid5 running. Just recently one of the drives kept removing itself from the array. I have re / formated / partitioned the drive multiple times, but either mdadm doesn't accept the drive, or it accepts, resyncs, and when i try to access the raid it fails again.
I eventually pulled the drive out and plugged it into my desktop machine. That machine recognized the partition fine. However after putting the drive back into the raid i receive these sort of errors on startup:
Jun 8 17:04:41 localhost kernel: [ 213.942913] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA
Jun 8 17:04:41 localhost kernel: [ 213.942922] ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:40:10:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
Jun 8 17:04:41 localhost kernel: [ 213.942924] res 51/40:00:40:10:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Jun 8 17:04:41 localhost kernel: [ 213.942928] ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Jun 8 17:04:41 localhost kernel: [ 213.942931] ata3.00: error: { UNC }
Jun 8 17:04:41 localhost kernel: [ 213.979780] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jun 8 17:04:41 localhost kernel: [ 213.979794] ata3: EH complete
Jun 8 17:04:44 localhost kernel: [ 216.508311] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Jun 8 17:04:44 localhost kernel: [ 216.508316] ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x24
Jun 8 17:04:44 localhost kernel: [ 216.508321] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA
Jun 8 17:04:44 localhost kernel: [ 216.508330] ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:40:10:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
Jun 8 17:04:44 localhost kernel: [ 216.508332] res 51/40:00:40:10:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Jun 8 17:04:44 localhost kernel: [ 216.508336] ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Jun 8 17:04:44 localhost kernel: [ 216.508339] ata3.00: error: { UNC }
Jun 8 17:04:44 localhost kernel: [ 216.538146] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jun 8 17:04:44 localhost kernel: [ 216.538160] ata3: EH complete
Jun 8 17:04:47 localhost kernel: [ 219.073696] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Jun 8 17:04:47 localhost kernel: [ 219.073701] ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x24
Jun 8 17:04:47 localhost kernel: [ 219.073705] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA
Jun 8 17:04:47 localhost kernel: [ 219.073714] ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:40:10:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
Jun 8 17:04:47 localhost kernel: [ 219.073716] res 51/40:00:40:10:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Jun 8 17:04:47 localhost kernel: [ 219.073720] ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Jun 8 17:04:47 localhost kernel: [ 219.073723] ata3.00: error: { UNC }
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.093967] ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27)
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.093972] ata3.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4)
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.093976] ata3.00: HPA support seems broken, skipping HPA handling
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.093980] ata3.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.093989] ata3: hard resetting link
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.567030] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587154] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587174] sd 2:0:0:0: [sde] Unhandled sense code
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587177] sd 2:0:0:0: [sde] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587182] sd 2:0:0:0: [sde] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] [descriptor]
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587187] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587190] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587202] 00 00 10 40
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587207] sd 2:0:0:0: [sde] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x4
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587212] sd 2:0:0:0: [sde] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 10 40 00 00 08 00
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587223] end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 4160
Jun 8 17:04:52 localhost kernel: [ 224.587228] Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 512
I have tried using SMART to test the drives, however all the drives seem to fail with some sort of error. I believe this is a false positive as I have read elsewhere that the 1TB Green Western Digitals (WD10EARS) seem to have problems with SMART.
Is this drive dead? Its only a year old... and unfortunately just out of warranty.
Last edited by passbe (2011-06-24 08:52:16)

Ok so i zero filled /dev/sde, and re-added it back to the array. It synced (for 2 days), and then my RAID5 completely failed. I can't bring it back up at all now. My BIOS says one of the hard drives is dead (SMART error). Fair enough drive is dead. But now i cant get the 3 drives back up and running in the RAID.
I have attempted the following:
sudo mdadm --assemble -vv /dev/md127 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy
mdadm: /dev/sdb1 has no superblock - assembly aborted
It complains that every device does not have a superblock?
A mdadm --examine on each drive:
/dev/sdb1
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : e3da6078:d4699e2d:c1da42cc:d58a42bf
Name : myhost:0
Creation Time : Sun Feb 27 09:27:39 2011
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 4
Avail Dev Size : 1953517954 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Array Size : 5860552704 (2794.53 GiB 3000.60 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1953517568 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : 95618add:2d0b86be:d06cc198:1a5e101f
Update Time : Tue Jun 14 20:44:51 2011
Checksum : 51b4a80f - correct
Events : 4808
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Device Role : Active device 0
Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
/dev/sdc1
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : e3da6078:d4699e2d:c1da42cc:d58a42bf
Name : myhost:0
Creation Time : Sun Feb 27 09:27:39 2011
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 4
Avail Dev Size : 1953517954 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Array Size : 5860552704 (2794.53 GiB 3000.60 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1953517568 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : 3056502e:51e004d0:4380f027:fe2d9ebc
Update Time : Tue Jun 14 20:44:51 2011
Checksum : e0b65526 - correct
Events : 4808
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Device Role : Active device 2
Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
/dev/sdd1
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : e3da6078:d4699e2d:c1da42cc:d58a42bf
Name : myhost:0
Creation Time : Sun Feb 27 09:27:39 2011
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 4
Avail Dev Size : 1953517954 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Array Size : 5860552704 (2794.53 GiB 3000.60 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1953517568 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : 3b7ea2c8:9fd80575:94fbe3a0:cde69026
Update Time : Tue Jun 14 20:34:16 2011
Checksum : 2f1a716 - correct
Events : 4791
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Device Role : Active device 1
Array State : AAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
/dev/sde1 (This is the bad drive)
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : e3da6078:d4699e2d:c1da42cc:d58a42bf
Name : myhost:0
Creation Time : Sun Feb 27 09:27:39 2011
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 4
Avail Dev Size : 1953523057 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Array Size : 5860552704 (2794.53 GiB 3000.60 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1953517568 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : bad3c5fd:3e439065:957ca15a:412339dc
Update Time : Tue Jun 14 20:44:51 2011
Checksum : 98033b24 - correct
Events : 4808
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Device Role : spare
Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
The only difference being that /dev/sdd1 thinks that the RAID has all four devices? Where do i go from here, I'm completely stuck and about to loose 50% of my data. Help!?!

Promise 20376 SATA Raid Controller Drivers?

Hi I'm trying to install WinXP with an K7N2GM2 - ILSR board and I'm having problems with the SATA drivers I've downloaded (from http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_list.php?part=1&kind=4&CHIP=4&COM=19). The 'make disk' instructions included is a bit awkward but I tried putting the different files on a floppy several different ways, but to no avail. When windows asks for a floppy to install the sata drivers, it reads the disk for a while and returns back to the 'insert a disk and hit ENTER.' I went to Promise's website and download some drivers from there but again to no avail, the drivers included on the CD with the mb have not worked either.
Just to make sure I'm simply not putting the correct files on floppy or not putting them in the proper directory structure, I'll give you an example of what I have put on the floppy:
WinXP <-Folder containing drivers
txtsetup.oem
ULSATA
fasttx2k
and the text files like 'makedisk'
I've also taken all of the files out of the WinXP directory and had all files in the same location A:\ . I'm not sure what to do at this point, I'm adept with computers and I know that sata can be finiky, but this one going nowhere fast. Could somebody help? BTW I'm only using one HD, a WD 80GB Sata HD which I had to put in an array ('functioning').

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=398
K7N2G-ILSR
is board with promise raid and vga

Promise PDC20579 SATA/RAID controller

I'm trying to get the piece of shit working with Linux, but haven't had any luck. I'm not sure which Promise add-on cards use this chip as this one is built into my mobo, where it provides 2-SATA and 1-PATA port. I'm using the PATA with 2 drives (160GB, 60GB) and I don't want to setup a RAID array, but just use it as an extra IDE controller.
The BIOS detects the drives correctly but linux doesn't recognize the Promise controller, so it's not assigning device nodes for the drives (no hd* or sd*) and I can't seem to make it work. The correct kernel module, according to the net, is sata_promise, but I'm not certain it supports the PATA part of the controller. When loaded, it prints info about the connected drives to dmesg, but never assigns device nodes.

Okay, so I found a patch in the Red Hat kernel mailing list that seems to work. It patches the sata-promise module to attempt to detect PATA ports when nothing is connected via SATA. I don't have any SATA discs so I cannot check to see if it breaks anything in regards to SATA.
If anyone else is interested, I'll strip the RH specific stuff from the patch and submit it to the Arch kernel devs for review. Not sure if enough people would find is useful tho.

Promise on-board RAID on Linux

I have motherboard MSI 845PE MAX2-FIR with integrated
Promise ATA133 RAID. Driver for Linux from 2.4.21 kernel
works, but not like RAID. I only see 2 disks (/dev/hde & /dev/hdg),
but it's not RAID (mirroring). Is there a possible solution? Is there a driver fo hardware RAID?

Hi,
I'm trying to find the linux drivers for this raid controler.
Can you help me for this.
Quote
Originally posted by bd_ucw
I have motherboard MSI 845PE MAX2-FIR with integrated
Promise ATA133 RAID. Driver for Linux from 2.4.21 kernel
works, but not like RAID. I only see 2 disks (/dev/hde & /dev/hdg),
but it\'s not RAID (mirroring). Is there a possible solution? Is there a driver fo hardware RAID?

Bad Raid Driver Floppy?

Hey everyone
So i followed Rsheppicks guide for multiple drive arrays and it seemed to work. I got to the point where i had to hit F6 and put in the nvidia raid driver floppy disk in. THen i hit S and it told me to put in the manufacturer supplied ardware support disk in. I put the floppy in and hit enter. However for some reason it wont read the floppy no matter how much i try. ive had this filoppy drive for about a year and it has always worked before. So i dont know whether the floppy drive/mobo combo is one of those unfortunate ones or perhaps the floppy is bad?....i dont know. BTW the floppy drive is that Sony MPF 920 or whatever
thanks
MSI K8N Neo Platinum
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Newcastle +CoolerMaster Hyper 6
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200
1x 36.7 GB WD Raptor
2x 160 GB WD SATA RAID 0
Antec Tue 550 +12v@30A
Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM
Lite-On 8X DVD-RW Dual Layer
MSI GF4 Ti4200 8X 128MB
SB Audigy 2
2x IOSS RD7-CA Cooling After Units

Is the avtivity light on the floppy on all the time? If so, you hooked up your floppy drive backward... reverse the cable now. I did the same thing on my setup, the Sony drive I have will allow you to hookup the cable either way. If not, I also had a corrupt NVRaid floppy (took me awhile to figure out both were the problem), just download the correct installs from MSI's website here and make sure your floppy is connected properly... you should have no problems after that. Hope this helps, peace.

Survey - Promise controller and RAID 1

Who out there is running RAID 1 with and onboard Promise controller? I have been been battling this for nearly a month (link). I started out by following the MSI manual to the letter, then on to online suggestions, no luck.
For anyone who's successfully running RAID 1, I'd really be interested in the following survey info (mine included):
Mobo: (MS-6380 v1.0)
Promise Controller: (FastTrak100 - 20265R)
OS: (Win2k SP3)
Drives: (WD400BB)
Filesystem(s) on drives: (NTFS)
OS on RAID array?: (yes)
Array created from existing OS install?: (yes - tried both)
Setup difficulties?: (yes, not done yet)
TIA,
Danny

Been using RAID-1 here for quite some time now, no problems at all. Even had a Maxtor fail and recovery/rebuilding of the array was childs play.
Mobo: KT3 Ultra ARU
Promise Controller: PDC20276
OS: win 98-SE
Drives: two WD800JB
Filesystem(s) on drives: FAT32
OS on RAID array?: NO
Array created from existing OS install?: YES
Setup difficulties?: NO

Promise 20378 sata raid ide controller: this device doesn't start

My WinXp Promise Fast Track 376/378 (tm) Controller doesn't start, despite installing the right drivers for vista and xp. Ik have a 40 gig Maxtor disk attached to the IDE port of the controller aangesloten. Het Fast Track bios sees this disk correctly. The disk is o.k. since I can access its contents while running Linux Kubunty gutsy gibbon. What is wrong with the windows drivers?
My system:
M/B = MSI KT6 Delta FIS2R
CPU = AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
RAM = 1GB Twinmos M2G9016A-TT pc 3200 Cl2.5
VGA = Ati Radeon 9600 series
HDD = 2x Maxtor 6Y120M0 via raid-0, Maxtor 91303D6 IDE1 master, Maxtor 6Y060L0 IDE2 master, Maxtor 54610H6 promise IDE master
PSU = Trust PW-5159 370W
Optical = Plextor DVDR PX-504A IDE1 slave, Plextor CD-R PX-W121 0A IDE2 slave
OSS = XP Pro SP2, Vista Ult., Kubuntu Gibbon 32bits, Suse 10.3 32 bits

Quote from: Fredrik Åsenius on 14-November-07, 05:57:51
Hello!
Is SATA/RAID enabled in BIOS?
Have you hit F6 during Windows installation, for allowing Windows Set-up to locate the drivers?
If SATA/RAID was disabled, it wouldn't even appear in Device Manager
If the RAID is secondary storage, then hitting F6 won't acheive anything as Windows is already installed
You will however need to go into the RAID BIOS and create an array before you can use the RAIDed disks

FastTrak (promise) Bios Probs - Raid

Ok Now i just recently got this mobo and i've been reading up, but to no avail. The problem is that i had an extra HDD that sat on the raid ide and i could use it just fine. well now i can't get access to this drive when i plug it into the raid ide slot on the mobo. I've installed all the raid drivers i could find for this mobo but they all seem to support SATA, and another prob is that during the boot sequence the FastTrak bios boots but then says bios not installed and just skips it. So is there an update or an install for this bios that i cant find? Any help or suggestions are much appreciated! Thanks.

Check here for the moded BIOS the one for the K7N2 Delta ILSR had a RAID Bios update too i got it on mine works wonders
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27626

Bad RAID Controller Card?

One of the arrays in my Xserve RAID had disappeared from the network and RAID admin software. All the disks that make up the array have green lights and appear in RAID admin. When the host PC reboots this array is no longer detected in the Apple Fibre Channel card BIOS. After having swapped cables around I reckon the RAID controller card has failed.
Is it safe to swap the top and bottom RAID controller cards to prove the diagnosis or does the controller hold information specific to the diskset it is connected to?

The diskset info is stored on the drives, so its perfectly fine to swap controllers.
On that note however, first of all make sure you really jam that controller board in there well... first time we swapped and it wasnt in there perfectly secure, 3 drives went red and the rest was history. Also, if your controller is acting up, definitly make sure things are backed up when swapping between sets... when we've had controller issues, its usually only been volumes going down on the computer's side, but I have heard of raid admin shooting back drive errors and turning things red as well.

Xserve 3,1/10.6.8 Server and Promise VTrak Ex30 Raid

My set up
Xserve 3,1/10.6.8 Server/18go ram/3x 2TO AppleRaid Card/Services AFP,SMB, OD, VPN
I need to add some storage space to the Xserve.
I could buy the Promise H4946LL/A Vtrak X30 Series 3U 16-Bay Dual-Controller 16X2TB SATA APPLE for +/- 19K
Or I could buy the Promise VTE630FDNX (No drives) and had those HD. +/- 10K
Add 8X4TB SATA for 3600$
Total: +/- 14K for 32TO and I still have 8 free hard drive bay for the futur
So did anybody ever setup Promise VTE630FDNX with a Xserve 3,1/10.6.8 Server/Atto Celerity FC-84EN ?
Thanks,

Hi, maracujana,
the problem can be solved if you allow the permssion of parental folder of your share points to have at least Read Only permission for User and Group:
permission: 644
User: Read&Write
Group: Read Only
Others: Read Only (or No Access)
In my case, it is strange that PCs can still do the search to the Snow Leopard Server by SMB protocol while Mac using AFP cannot even when the parental folder had permission 600. This could be a secure issue in Snow Leopard's SMB1.0 protocol. Note that SMB in Snow Leopard is SMB1.0, which is less secure and hence deprecated after Snow Leopard. From Lion onwards, all OS X uses SMB2.0 and/or SMB X.
Oh, yes, there is one more thing:
you may find your scanner using SMB protocol stopped functioning properly if you use (Mountain) Lion client and (Mountain) Lion server. It boils down to Apple's silent change of SMB protocol from SMB1.0 to SMB2.0. Solution? Use FTP protocol for now. Don't blame Apple too much because Apple had to follow the rules of GPLv3. The SMB issue will go on as Microsoft introduces its own SMB 3.0 protocol in Windows 8 while Apple introduces its SMB verison dubbed SMB X.
Hope this helps.

Promise T3 SATA RAID controller Vista x64 driver OK for W7 x64?

Before I walk down the path of tears again, or at least roll the dice, has anyone used the Vista 64bit drivers for the Promise T3 controller that comes with the K9A2 Platinum on W7 64 bit? And if so, did they work?
From here: http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1332
Thanks,
Anthony
Specs:
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU
AMD Phenom X4 9550 28 °C
Agena 65nm Technology
RAM
8.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz 5-5-5-13
Motherboard
MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7376 (CPU 1)
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor on ATI Radeon HD 3870
ATI Radeon HD 3870 (VISIONTEK) 47 °C
ATI Radeon HD 3870 (VISIONTEK) 47 °C
Hard Drives
1000GB MICRONET FANTOM DRIVE IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device (1394)
749GB ATI 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 SCSI Disk Device (SCSI)
Optical Drives
ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P ATA Device
Audio
High Definition Audio Device

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Hard drive configuration with Promise Raid controller

I plan on running two 30 gig 75GXP drives on the Promise controller in Raid-0 mode. I also have a 60 gig WD drive that I use for backups and for initial installation. During installation, I put the Win98SE setup files and all the drivers, apps, backup data, etc. on the WD drive and do a clean install from there.
My current (old) board is an Abit KT7-R with the Highpoint raid controller. Using the Highpoint controller, I am able to put the WD drive as a slave device and the controller treats it as a normal IDE drive. I'm moving to the 845 Ultra ARU. From what I've read, if you put a single drive on the Promise controller, it tries to set it up as a Raid drive? I don't want to risk losing my backup data on the WD drive to some attempt by the Promise controller to "raid" my single drive. So, where is the best place to put my WD drive so that I can install my system from it? I'm thinking about putting it as Master on IDE2. I normally run my CD as Master on IDE1. Once the installation is complete, I will remove the installation files from the WD drive and use it exclusively for backups. I have the WD drive in a Vantec EZ-Swap rack, and I normally keep it powered off unless doing a backup.
So, the plan is to create the Raid-0 array, Fdisk and format the array, and then load Windows from the WD drive, followed by all my applications. Is Master on IDE-2 the best solution for the WD drive?

hi
not very clued up on raid but it sounds right
if the wd drive is on its own on that ide do not jumper
as master you have to have no jumpers if all alone

Promise Fastrack100 (bad) raid

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