SuSE Linux: Versions since 6.4
3ware IDE RAID controllers are completely supported on SuSE Linux 7.1 or higher.
Regarding Promise FastTrack66 and FastTrack100 controllers, a driver for SuSE Linux 7.1 or higher is available at the following URL:
http://support.promise.com/Linux/Default.htm
Unfortunately, Promise is not prepared to publish this driver's source code. For this reason we are unable to support this driver, which is not included in the distribution. Should you have any questions concerning this driver, please refer directly to Promise.
RAID is also currently supported only by those devices based on Highpoint HPT370, such as Dawicontrol DC-100 RAID and mainboards Abit KT-7 RAID. The drivers can be found at:
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers_linux.htm
Support for these drivers is also provided by the manufacturer (i.e. Highpoint) only.
At the following page, you can find information from the IDE kernel developer Andre Hedrick regarding the supported IDE chipsets.
http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html.
Tips for booting hard drives on additional IDE controllers
Please notice that changes in the file/etc/lilo.confare necessary if you want to boot hard drives connected to additional IDE controllers.
Please add the following entry in the Global Section
if you want to boot from hde
and
do not have other hard drives on the first controllers.
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80If you use a second hard drive as master on the second controller add
disk=/dev/hdg bios=0x81After that you need to execute
liloas user
root
.
If you have a so-called mixed system, please have a look at the "Boot:
(E)IDE and SCSI" article. There you will find some informations about how to use the lilo -v -v -vcommand to find out what bios numbers
LILO
wants to have.