Fwd: Promise TX2200/2300 SATA RAID Controllers - New Driver/BIOS Problem

Mark Kirkwood markir at paradise.net.nz
Fri Mar 10 10:55:28 UTC 2006


Jud wrote:

> Another oddity: The Promise BIOS allows a stripe size of 128kB, but
> after running "atacontrol create raid0 250 ad4 ad6," the BIOS shows a
> stripe size of 64kB (the default) on bootup.

I think you need to do "atacontrol create raid0 256 ad4 ad6" (assuming 
"250" isn't a typo) - 250 is not a valid stripe size, so I guess the 
array firmware is falling back on the default of 128.

Cheers

Mark


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