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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:28:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      mi@aldan.algebra.com
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Petr Murmak <murmak@artum.cz>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Promise-66 RAID 
Message-ID:  <200007262028.QAA04658@misha.privatelabs.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007261956.MAA39162@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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On 26 Jul, Mike Smith wrote:
= The FastTrak  cards are not RAID  cards; they are dual-port  ATA cards
= with  (lame) RAID  software  in the  BIOS on  the  card. They  require
= Windows drivers  which take over  the RAID  work once you  have booted
= Windows, or you can use them as plain dual-port ATA-66 cards.
=
= If you want a supported ATA RAID solution, see www.3ware.com.

We see  ccd driver  doing wonders with  several disks  connected through
Promise ATA cards. Speed of 20-60Mb/s is achievable with CPU utilization
much smaller then when using the 3Ware card.

	-mi




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