Promise TX4300 boot problems

[Lawrence Farr]

> 
> > I've stuck a Promise TX4300 controller in to replace
> > the marvell onboard SATA that I can't boot off on a
> > Supermicro server. If I set 2 discs up as Raid 0
> > or Raid 1 it's fine, But 4 discs as Raid 0+1 is detected,
> > installs without any problems, but hangs at the boot
> > loader with elf32_loadimage: read failed. I'm guesssing
> > the boot loader thinks it's a mirror, not a stripe and
> > fails to read past the first stripe on the disk?
> 
> If this is the case then its a bug in the controller 
> firmware; loader is
> just doing BIOS I/O calls. Check for a firmware update for your
> controller.


It's the latest version of the firmware. I'll go back to using
a mirror.