Need ATA RAID Promise Help (Intel SR1200 Server)

rabidjade · 07-05-2007, 11:01 PM

I bought two Intel SR1200 servers awhile back to replace my aging web server. I finally got the chance tonight to play with them. Both have two ATA drives running on a Promise FastTrak RAID controller. I can setup a mirroring RAID array just fine. The problem is I tried to install Ubuntu Server on the array. It installed just fine but it saw two drives when it asked where the install drive was to be. A reboot gives me the "Boot Failure System Halted" and the "!" light comes on in the front i/o panel. I thought it might be hardware so I tried the same hard drives on my second unit and got the same thing. So what am I doing wrong here?

If anyone find a manual talking about the RAID on this model of server, I'll be shocked.

rabidjade · 07-06-2007, 09:43 PM

I found out that Ubuntu doesn't like "fakeraid" setups and it takes a lot of setup customization to get it to work. Now I need to find Promise FastTrak100 RAID drivers for Windows 2003 Server.

07-05-2007, 11:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
rabidjade Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 57 OS: WinXP	Need ATA RAID Promise Help (Intel SR1200 Server) I bought two Intel SR1200 servers awhile back to replace my aging web server. I finally got the chance tonight to play with them. Both have two ATA drives running on a Promise FastTrak RAID controller. I can setup a mirroring RAID array just fine. The problem is I tried to install Ubuntu Server on the array. It installed just fine but it saw two drives when it asked where the install drive was to be. A reboot gives me the "Boot Failure System Halted" and the "!" light comes on in the front i/o panel. I thought it might be hardware so I tried the same hard drives on my second unit and got the same thing. So what am I doing wrong here? If anyone find a manual talking about the RAID on this model of server, I'll be shocked.

07-06-2007, 09:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
rabidjade Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 57 OS: WinXP	Re: Need ATA RAID Promise Help (Intel SR1200 Server) I found out that Ubuntu doesn't like "fakeraid" setups and it takes a lot of setup customization to get it to work. Now I need to find Promise FastTrak100 RAID drivers for Windows 2003 Server.