From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 30 15:12:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from nhj.nlc.net.au (nhj.nlc.net.au [203.24.133.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7414E37BD4A for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 15:12:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@nlc.net.au) Received: (qmail 27661 invoked from network); 1 May 2000 08:12:50 +1000 Received: from pacer.nlc.net.au (HELO ?hostname?) (203.24.133.16) by nhj.nlc.net.au with SMTP; 1 May 2000 08:12:50 +1000 Received: (qmail 80082 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2000 02:49:48 -0000 Received: from localhost.home (HELO nlc.net.au) (john@127.0.0.1) by localhost.home with SMTP; 15 Apr 2000 02:49:47 -0000 Message-ID: <38F7D8CB.B27A9158@nlc.net.au> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:49:47 +1000 From: John Saunders Organization: NORTHLINK COMMUNICATIONS PTY LTD X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary D. Margiotta" , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise FasTrak 66 IDE RAID References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary D. Margiotta" wrote: > Ok, I was flipping through the archives, but wasn't really sure on an > answer about this: > > Does the Fastrak 66 RAID controller work under 4.0 (actually doing > RAID, not just as a UDMA/66 controller)? > > I know support was added for the 'normal' Promise cards with the new ata > driver. However, I didn't see anything mentioned about the Fastrak and > the ability to do IDE RAID. Nope. The "RAID" features of the card are actually done inside the BIOS which of course is only used in a DOS/Windows environment. As far as any UNIX system is concerned, you have an expensive IDE controller, and you need to use something like vinum or ccd anyway. Interestingly, you can modify the normal Promise UDMA/66 card to allow a FLASH upgrade to the Fastrak BIOS software. With this done it becomes a RAID card - under DOS/Windows. Please note that this is highly illegal and not a suggested practice. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders - mailto:john@nlc.net.au (EMail) | ,--_|\ | - http://www.nlc.net.au/ (WWW) | / Oz \ | - 02-9489-4932 or 04-1822-3814 (Phone) | \_,--\_/ | NORTHLINK COMMUNICATIONS P/L - Supplying a professional, | v | and above all friendly, internet connection service. | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message