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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller
In-Reply-To: <39431747.41C67EA6@elischer.org> from Julian Elischer at "Jun 10, 2000 09:36:23 pm"
To: julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer)
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It seems Julian Elischer wrote:
> Does anyone KNOW of these working under the 
> new drivers? What about setup?

They are supported by the ATA driver, setup as usual, ie none
they just work...

> 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.

That must have been with the old wd driver, man ata :)

Remember though that we see them just as a normal ATA controller
what they in reality are. The Promise RAID stuff is just
software in the BIOS, you are better of with ccd/vinum.

-Søren


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