[burnsryan]

looking for a driver for PDC20378 RAID 150.

looked everywhere.....any suggestions?

ryan

[Advertisements]

Check here

http://www.computerg...uk/promise.html

CAVEAT: Debian Woody's cfdisk appears to do something to the MBR of the harddrives that silently locks the ASUS PC-DL motherboard (and possibly others) during attempts to boot from the hard-drive. This had us confused for ages, and we didn't realise quite what was going on until we spotted that an identical system, that hadn't been near cfdisk, gave an error message on screen when there was no operating system, rather than just given silence. Given that the rest of the system (including BIOS) was configured identically, something was clearly up. If you get this problem such that you cannot boot from the hard-disk any more, you may need to boot from a MS Windows rescue floppy and us DOS fdisk to do an fdisk /MBR. If you sensibly install your boot loader to a (boot) partition rather than the MBR, you ought be able to safely fdisk /MBR without breaking your boot loader (or anything else for that matter.) If you don't have access to a suitable fdisk, you can just delete the RAID array and remake it using the relevant BIOS options instead, which should remake the MBR for you as well (although removing everything on the RAID array in the process!)

[Retired Tech]

Check here

http://www.computerg...uk/promise.html

CAVEAT: Debian Woody's cfdisk appears to do something to the MBR of the harddrives that silently locks the ASUS PC-DL motherboard (and possibly others) during attempts to boot from the hard-drive. This had us confused for ages, and we didn't realise quite what was going on until we spotted that an identical system, that hadn't been near cfdisk, gave an error message on screen when there was no operating system, rather than just given silence. Given that the rest of the system (including BIOS) was configured identically, something was clearly up. If you get this problem such that you cannot boot from the hard-disk any more, you may need to boot from a MS Windows rescue floppy and us DOS fdisk to do an fdisk /MBR. If you sensibly install your boot loader to a (boot) partition rather than the MBR, you ought be able to safely fdisk /MBR without breaking your boot loader (or anything else for that matter.) If you don't have access to a suitable fdisk, you can just delete the RAID array and remake it using the relevant BIOS options instead, which should remake the MBR for you as well (although removing everything on the RAID array in the process!)

[Retired Tech]

Here also

IDE (Ultra/RAID) for Promise embedded chipsets

Promise PDC20267 (FastTrak 100) Drivers
S2099, S2505D, S2505T, S2515, S2518 and Transport GS10 Server - IDE/RAID (WinNT, Win9x/ME, Win2K, WinXP, and Win Server 2003 / 32-bit) here or here


Promise PDC20378 (FastTrak S150TX2 Plus) Drivers
S2668, S2880 , S5101, S5102 - IDE/RAID (Win2K, WinXP and Win Server 2003 / 32-bit - here

Promise PDC20378 (FastTrak S150TX2 Plus) Drivers
S2668, S2880 , S5101, S5102 - IDE/RAID (WinXP and Win Server 2003 / 64-bit - here


Promise Array Manager Software
For all embedded Promise chipsets and supported OS' - here


http://www.tyan.com/...rs_support.html