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Tony
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:12 pm 
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The NASLite-2 Hardware Reference Guide is now complete and made available here for your review. Included are network, IDE, SATA, SCSI and hardware RAID controllers supported by NASlite-2. Short of testing each device, we took great care in making sure that the guide is accurate, however there is always the remote possibility of incorrect or missing listings.

http://www.serverelements.com/file.php? ... erence.pdf

Any comments are welcome. :!:
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mikeiver1
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I just got one of the LSI MegaRAID 511 i4 cards and it doesn't seem to even be seen. I am messing with it but have yet to get it to work.

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Tony
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According to the PCI IDs handled by the associated driver, that card is supported. Ralph uses LSI MegaRAID cards exclusively. His personal servers as well as early benchmarking of NASLite-2 was done using LSI MegaRAID cards. I think that he’ll be the best to comment.

I think it may be beneficial to come up with an informal system if reporting that will allow us to improve the guide. If three people report a device as nonworking, with none reporting otherwise, then the device in question gets removed from the docs. I guess this is the first count against that card. So, if anyone can second mikeiver1’s experience, speak-up…
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mikeiver1
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I am still trying to see if the card will work with NL2.0. I have used a build disk (Linux from scratch) to make a partition on the card so I know it is seen and accessable by linux. I will get back and tell you if it is seen after I format it from the cammand line and it is seen by NL2.0.

Mike
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pszilard
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Tony wrote:
The NASLite-2 Hardware Reference Guide is now complete and made available here for your review. Included are network, IDE, SATA, SCSI and hardware RAID controllers supported by NASlite-2. Short of testing each device, we took great care in making sure that the guide is accurate, however there is always the remote possibility of incorrect or missing listings.

http://www.serverelements.com/file.php? ... erence.pdf

Any comments are welcome. :!:


This link doesn't work for me. Tried Copy/Paste into different browsers, but it just redirects to a NASLITE basic page and not to any h/w list.

Can you please fix, or provide working link? Thanks in advance,
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ALucas
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Paul, the link worked and still works for me by just clicking on it.
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pszilard
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This is really weird. When I click it, it just gives me http://www.serverelements.com/ even though there is the ... reference.pdf on the end. I can even paste the full url including the pdf part into my browser and when I press Enter it just goes to the basic home page!

I've tried it in IE, Firefox and Opera with the same results. Could you email me the PDF please? Send it to paul.szilard@gmail.com that will avoid the spam blocker. Many thanks.

Cheers,
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I have posted the Ref.
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Mike Hanson
 Post subject: Promise SATA300 TX2plus?
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Your reference mentions a bunch of SATA cards from Promise Technologies, including the SATA150 TX2plus and SATAII150 TX2plus. However, it doesn't mention the SATA300 TX2plus, and I've got two of them in my system. They were recognized automatically by FreeNAS and Ubuntu, but NASLite-2 doesn't seem to see them. Here's my boot log, in case that helps:
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* Aug 27 03:01:35 syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2006.02.26-22:07+0000)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 daemon.info init: ^MStarting pid 1573, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2006.02.26-22:07+0000)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.32.NASLite (root@TZT) (gcc version 3.3.6) #2 Sat Jul 22 04:08:30 UTC 2006
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009d400 (usable)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009d400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffc000 (usable)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc000 - 000000001ffff000 (ACPI data)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.notice kernel: 511MB LOWMEM available.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 131068
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: zone(1): 126972 pages.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f75a0
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc000
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc100
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc040
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc080
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 rw
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Detected 1614.395 MHz processor.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 3224.37 BogoMIPS
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Memory: 512900k/524272k available (2187k kernel code, 10976k reserved, 734k data, 536k init, 0k highmem)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 256K
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz stepping 02
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Checking for popad bug. OK.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf11f0, last bus=2
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 *4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: PCI: Enabled i801 SMBus device
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Transparent bridge - PCI device 8086:244e
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI2._PRT]
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 4
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 7
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 3
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.err kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 00:1f.3
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: er Society NET3.039
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU] (supports C1)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.7.6-k1
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.30.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.err kernel: 8139cp: pci dev 02:0e.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.err kernel: 8139cp: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe0809000, 00:40:f4:34:1d:30, IRQ 10
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ICH2: chipset revision 18
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9800-0x9807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9808-0x980f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: hda: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: blk: queue c048ac00, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9300, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: hda: host protected area => 1
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Partition check:
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Jul 22 2006 04:09:13)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.11 loaded.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x9400, IRQ 4
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.4 to 64
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x9000, IRQ 7
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: .<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1, assigned address 2
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: .<6>scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Vendor: Kingston Model: DataTraveler 2.0 Rev: 1.00
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: .Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: .SCSI device sda: 1001472 512-byte hdwr sectors (513 MB)
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.debug kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 2
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1602k freed
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 536k freed
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
* Aug 27 03:01:35 user.info kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
* Aug 27 03:02:08 auth.info login[1791]: root login on `pts/0'


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Jon798
 Post subject: LSI Megaraid i4
PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:47 am 
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Tony wrote:
According to the PCI IDs handled by the associated driver, that card is supported. Ralph uses LSI MegaRAID cards exclusively. His personal servers as well as early benchmarking of NASLite-2 was done using LSI MegaRAID cards. I think that he’ll be the best to comment.

I think it may be beneficial to come up with an informal system if reporting that will allow us to improve the guide. If three people report a device as nonworking, with none reporting otherwise, then the device in question gets removed from the docs. I guess this is the first count against that card. So, if anyone can second mikeiver1’s experience, speak-up…


Hi,

Ahead of any other system being set up for reporting...

I'm using v2.01 with one of these 511 i4 cards with no problems. It's a while back now, but I seem to remember checking the IRQs on boot and adjusting the allocation in the BIOS to give the card an IRQ of its own (not shared with VGA/network). Also, there was a slight issue in the first machine I tried it on where I couldn't access the in-built config at bootup (Ctrl-H). The 'idiots version' (Ctrl-M) worked fine, though.

Thanks also to Ralph for his online expansion guide - worked a treat, though it did take about 2 days to rebuild and then check and repair the expanded array (6x200GB now). Slightly complex with the i4 card, as the software that lets you add disks to an array only runs on Windows. Also - one to note: if you're planning on expanding an array in the near future, the various Linux tools I could find weren't happy resizing an Ext3 partition, so I had to convert it back to Ext2, then resize, then reapply the journal once I'd done a check and repair in NASLite 2. I'm sure this is all old-hat for many, but it took me a while to figure out...

Another very happy customer - Thanks.

Jon.
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Thanks for the info. I will take another stab at it later this week and post it here.

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Mike Hanson
 Post subject: Bump!
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So, can I expect support for my Promise SATA300 TX2plus cards anytime soon, or is something something I can do now to get them to work?

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gaiden
 Post subject: Re: Bump!
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Mike Hanson wrote:
So, can I expect support for my Promise SATA300 TX2plus cards anytime soon, or is something something I can do now to get them to work?


Hi Mike,

I don't think there is any thing you can do until the drivers are added to support your card. Maybe with v2.02 it might be supported?
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So, can I expect support for my Promise SATA300 TX2plus cards anytime soon, or is something something I can do now to get them to work?


NASLite-2 is based on the Linux 2.4.X kernel and as such includes only drivers that are part of the stable kernel tree. The Hardware Reference Guide lists devices that are currently supported. Additional device support may be included in future releases provided a qualified driver is available in stable kernel source.
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Mike Hanson
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Tony wrote:
NASLite-2 is based on the Linux 2.4.X kernel and as such includes only drivers that are part of the stable kernel tree.

Thanks for the responses. I just checked http://www.linuxhq.com. The 2.4.X kernel tree doesn't appear to include the drivers, nor do any of the patches. However, the 2.6.X does (http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/17/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c):
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    board_20319      = 1,   /* FastTrak S150 TX4 */
    board_20619      = 2,   /* FastTrak TX4000 */
    board_20771      = 3,   /* FastTrak TX2300 */
+   board_2057x      = 4,   /* SATAII150 Tx2plus */
+   board_40518      = 5,   /* SATAII150 Tx4 */

I've cross-referenced this with the Promise website (http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productID=138&category=all&os=100), which even offers the source code for the Linux kernel driver. Is there any way to compile this for 2.4.X, and include it in NASLite-2? (I'm a longtime software developer, but a newbie when it comes to building Linux distros.)

If it turns out that NASLite-2 cannot support my hardware, how do I go about getting a refund, as this software is useless to me as-is.

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