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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:00:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Promise TX2200/2300 SATA RAID Controllers - New Driver/BIOS
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:55:24 +1300, "Mark Kirkwood"
<markir@paradise.net.nz> said:
> Jud wrote:
> 
> > Another oddity: The Promise BIOS allows a stripe size of 128kB, but
> > after running "atacontrol create raid0 250 ad4 ad6," the BIOS shows a
> > stripe size of 64kB (the default) on bootup.
> 
> I think you need to do "atacontrol create raid0 256 ad4 ad6" (assuming 
> "250" isn't a typo) - 250 is not a valid stripe size, so I guess the 
> array firmware is falling back on the default of 128.

Thanks, made the error (all too familiar in my case) of calculating
128,000 bytes = 128kB.

Jud