Promise SX6000 controller

[Freddie Cash]

> Before I go beat my head against the proverbial wall - again ....

> Any tips on installing 5.2.1 using this controller? Any tricks to
> making it bootable? In fact is it possible to make it bootable?

Last time I looked at the Promise cards, they weren't actually
hardware RAID cards.  Instead, they were a hybrid software / hardware
card that did most of the RAID work in the driver.  IOW, you had to
load a kernel, load a driver, then mount the drive array in order to
get the RAID array accessible.  This meant you couldn't put / (or at
least /boot) onto the RAID array.

There may be tricks to get around this but I didn't spend much time on
it.  I just returned the Promise cards and replaced them with 3Ware
Escalade cards which do real hardware RAID and let you put / onto the
RAID array.

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Freddie Cash
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