Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:25:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller Message-ID: <200006121125.NAA33956@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <200006111906.MAA14816@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jun 11, 2000 12:06:24 pm"
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It seems Mike Smith wrote: > > It seems Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Does anyone KNOW of these working under the > > > > new drivers? What about setup? > > > > I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) > > > > to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic > > > > after that period. The hardware support lists don't mention > > > > them either. > > > > > > They work OK, but you need to pull the BIOS (ie. not boot from them). > > > > Uhm, why is that exactly, I boot of one such bastard :) > > The FastTrak RAID controller? Last time I played with the one we have, > it insisted on RAIDing any disks you attached to it. Since we don't > support their on-disk metadata, that made it kinda hard to go anyhere. I've looked at what they put on disk long ago, but I newer got to make either ccd or vinum use that info, I'd rather see vinum and the kernel grow this in a generic manner... > Sounds like that's no longer the case, which is good news. 8) It newer was, you just make a single onedisk "promise" partition and dont use it, that way the BIOS is satisfied. BTW it not possible to pull the BIOS on the newer ones ie the Fasttrak 66 & 100, the BIOS is soldered in place. I guess one could degrade the Fasttrak to an Ultra by flashing an Ultra BIOS image :) At any rate the Promise Fasttrak is a "winraid" gimmick that is close to useless, but its a fine way to trible the income off ones ATA controller... This can be done with any dual channel ATA controller, so I guess its just a matter of time until we see this in the motherboard BIOS on some boards.... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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