Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:01:02 -0800 From: James <j@evilcode.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Promise FASTtrak66/RAID1 working? Message-ID: <20001215160102.A84096@evilcode.com>
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I understand that FreeBSD 4.2 (and before) does not support the Promise FASTtrak66 in a RAID setup. But being one that likes to see things for himself, I tried it out. When I was doing the install, and I got to the disk partitioning part, it gave me 3 choices: ad4, ad6, and ar0. Remembering that I saw it mention the ar0 as the RAID card when it booted, I tried this device out.. and I saw 30GB of space when I was creating the slice; something that one would expect when the RAID1 setup works.. but my understanding about this card is that it only works as a regular IDE controller, and none of the RAID features are useable in FreeBSD. And I also looked in the LINT kernel config file to see what ar0 was supposed to be, and found that it's description is "Arnet SYNC/570i hdlc sync 2/4 port V.35/X.21 serial driver (requires sppp)". Now I'm really confused about this. Why is my RAID1 configuration working at all? And why was this device seen as "ar0"? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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