Second IDE Raid controller

I have MSI K7T 266 Pro 2 RU board, onboard raid, i want to install second raid controller card. I cant get into a bios of second card. Second card is CMD PCI - 0649 Ultra 100 Raid controller.
If the a problems when running two raid controllers in one system?
And how can i get into the bios of second raid card.
P.S. card is installed in Windows XP fine. i can see two hard drives connected to it. Right after raid bios on onboard raid it looks windows.
Please help
Thanks

Quote
Originally posted by pcman12345
My pc boots of onboard raid. (2) 40gig drives. What do new drivers have to do with getting into bios of pci raid card. I have all the latest drivers anyway.
Any other ideas?
Thanks for your help.
It sounds like you are booting from the promise RAID controller. If so, you are well familiar with the way in which it dominates the bootup process for the first 30 seconds or so.........(dots look familiar?...)
I wonder if the second RAID card is also initiating its bios sequence at the same time underneath the Promise boot screen (underneath, so to speak) so that when the Promise routine is finished, so is the CMD routine, and you proceed from that point with both RAID controllers initialized (but can only see one of them at a time from the bios screen.)
Do you you have "boot from other device" enabled in the bios? If so you might try disabling that to see if it will sequence the RAID controllers initialization so that the CMD bios appears after the Promise bios is done (I assume you have the onboard Promise array selected as the boot device.)
A bit more trouble would be to reboot to main bios, disable the onboard RAID controller in the bios, save and reboot. At this point the Promise bios will not display and you should see a CMD bios display which you could manipulate--then reenable the Promise controller to boot, etc. If you disable the Promise controller and you still don't see a bios for the CMD RAID device you need to look elsewhere. Also, it might be that the CMD bios access requires a certain key sequence pressed during post to display?....Just some random thoughts...

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Originally posted by wystewart
Check
http://www.linux-ide.org/
You will likely need to patch the kernel and re-compile. Suggest using the latest kernel, 2.4.19.
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
this but I "could try it". MSI.com must support the onboard chip. Anyone at MSI.com feel free to contact
me direct -- perhaps we can work something out
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Redhat 7.3, anyway:
rhup-ftb22.zip contains:
1.02.0.22up
FT-ioctl.txt
install
modinfo
modules.cgz
modules.dep
pcitable
readme.txt
rhdd-6.1
setup-ft
II. complete readme.txt:
----- 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)
1.3 Linux kernel 2.4.x ATA issue on FastTrak Series PDC20265R/PDC20270
Linux Kernels 2.4.x misidentifies PDC20265R/PDC20270 (FastTrak 100 Lite
motherboard-embedded solution/FastTrak100TX2) cards and/or chips as simple
IDE controllers. This results in the built-in Linux IDE driver trying to
handle the controller and can prevent the proper FastTrak ATA RAID driver
to be loaded. Follow the installation instructions AND the parameter
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
# cd /mnt/floppy
# sh install (Answer Yes/No when inquire setup configuration)
You can answer Yes to load FastTrak driver when linux booting everytime.
# cd ..
# umount /dev/fd0
NOTE: All IDE channels except the first and second one are disable
for the "Linux 2.4 ATA issue". It can be enable by removing
'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.
3.) Reboot redhat linux system.
2.2 To install the FastTrak Series Linux Driver into a NEW SYSTEM
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 ---
If you are NOT in "IDE issue", type "expert" (without quotations)
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".
If installing RedHat 7.1/7.2/7.3, please skip to Step 9.
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".
8.) The installation process will now display "Promise FastTrak Series
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 ---
If NOT in "IDE issue", ignore step 9 and proceed to step 10.
10.) Continue with the installation as normal.
11.) If installing RedHat 7.2 or Update Linux to RedHat 7.1/7.2/7.3.
Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 when installation at the "Congratulations" menu.
Other RedHat version please click "Exit" button to finish installation.
12.) Insert the FastTrak Driver Disk floppy, Issue commands to load FastTrak
driver.
# chroot /mnt/sysimage
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
# cd /mnt
# sh setup-ft
# cd /
# umount /mnt
# exit
13.) Choose your selection here, after FastTrak driver setup successful.
Please Press Ctrl-Alt-F7 and click "Exit" button to finish installation.
[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"
2.) "ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0
ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0"
----- snip ------
III. For my RAID farm, render farm, I have multiple
20 GB IBM IDE/100 hard drives, so I connected one
of them to a regular (non-RAID) IDE port, booted from CDROM and sucessfully installed Redhat 7.3 selecting very simple defaults. Tried multiple times, clean shutdown, clean reboot, all OK, no surprises. Great.
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
purely so that I do not have to panic when a drive fails, I can take my time in replacing the falty drive and no
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
then inserts the following modules:
FastTrak
scsi_mod
sd_mod
QUESTION: Should I now expect to boot OK by removing the drive from the IDE (non-RAID), moving to
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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hi
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Thanks.

Yeah, all the firmware & bios is up to date, have stripped things down to just the motherboard, graphics card & Perc. Tried PCI graphics to elliminate any conflicts there. I have disabled all the on-board controllers too.

RAID Controller for V890

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone can tell me whether there is a RAID controller available for V890 for its internal FC-AL hard disks. I've never seen a RAID controller for FC hard disks and my vendor claims that there is no RAID controller available for the V890. So many hard disk slots & no RAID controller doesnt seem like the best of ideas. Software RAID just doesnt cut it when u apply RAID 5 on this number of hard disks.
Regards

Hello There,
There is no RAID Controller available to be used internaly for V880/890.

Second IDE Raid controller

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