Stephen,
Sorry but that is a closed source driver and you have to goto Promise, LOL.
Last time I talked to them they sent me an email virus that choked a drive.
Scan your mail first and then count your fingers if you have to shake
hands with somebody their....
Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Andre,
>
> I have searched everywhere for some help getting my Promise
> FrastTrack/100 Raid controller working. I finally found the ft.o driver
> on the Promise website and have gotten it installed correctly (I think),
> but I can NOT get fdisk to recognize the drive. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephen Woodbridge
>
> Here is what I have done so far:
>
> RedHat 6.2
> Linux 2.2.18
> (No other scsi devices in system)
>
> I added to /etc/conf.modules
> alias block-major-8 ft
> and copied the ft.o to /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi
> and did the depmod -a
> and rebooted
>
> (after boot) ...
> [root@linus /root]# lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> lockd 44688 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> sunrpc 58820 0 (autoclean) [lockd]
> 3c509 5996 1 (autoclean)
> tulip 31888 1 (autoclean)
> es1371 25920 0
> soundcore 2596 4 [es1371]
>
> [root@linus /root]# fdisk /dev/sda # tried repeatedly
>
> Unable to open /dev/sda
>
> [root@linus /root]# lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> ft 71048 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> scsi_mod 38372 1 (autoclean) [ft]
> lockd 44688 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> sunrpc 58820 0 (autoclean) [lockd]
> 3c509 5996 1 (autoclean)
> tulip 31888 1 (autoclean)
> es1371 25920 0
> soundcore 2596 4 [es1371]
> [root@linus /root]#
>
> When fdisk tried to access /dev/sda the module was loaded and the
> following banner shows up on the console:
>
> TastTrack Driver v1.10 build 3 (06.OCT.2000)
> scsi0 : FASTTRACK
> scsi : 1 host
> Vendor: Promise Model: 1x2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev 1.10
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Vendor: Promise Model: 1x2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev 1.10
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Vendor: Promise Model: 1x2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev 1.10
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Vendor: Promise Model: 1x2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev 1.10
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> > FrastTrack/100 Raid controller working. I finally found the ft.o driver
Did you try building it from source? Their docs say beta ft.o is RH 6.2-7.0
which would make me a bit nervous.
ftp://ftp.promise.com/Controllers/IDE/FastTrak100/Linux/LinuxBETA/
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> > > FrastTrack/100 Raid controller working. I finally found the ft.o driver
>
> Did you try building it from source? Their docs say beta ft.o is RH 6.2-7.0
> which would make me a bit nervous.
>
> ftp://ftp.promise.com/Controllers/IDE/FastTrak100/Linux/LinuxBETA/
They dont supply most of the source, just get a different controller.