I finally managed to get the latest Redhat 9.0 installed on a computer
with mirrored 120 GB IDE drives on a Promise FastTrak100 TX2
RAID controller. But it wasn't easy.

Frankly, I'm very disappointed with Promise. If I had it to do over
again, I'd just use Linux's software RAID and the motherboard's IDE
controller. But now that I've finally got this thing working, I guess I'll
use it.

First of all, despite Promise's claims to the contrary, even in the manual
for the FastTrak100 controllers, they are NOT hardware RAID controllers.
They are simple IDE controllers with BIOS and drivers to do software
RAID. Their BIOS does a good job of emulating a hardware RAID
controller for those operating systems that access the disk through BIOS --
which basically means MS-DOS. For everything else, special drivers
are required to emulate a RAID controller in software.

This is what I did.

First, I downloaded the latest version of RH 9.0 from
http://linuxsite.divms.uiowa.edu/red...redhat-9.0-en/
and burned it into 6 CDs (of which I've actually used just the first 3).

I installed the Promise TX2 adapter, and a pair of Seagate 120 GB IDE
disk drives.