Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:44:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006122042360.11271-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <39431747.41C67EA6@elischer.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

I have many of them up and running under 4.0, but they will only function
as normal IDE controllers, not "RAID".

As to teh BIOS issue, make a stripe, then make your partition that you're
using not stomp on the end of the drive, and it won't overwrite that gook
that the promise sticks out there.

Heck, I sent one with some drives to Soren just to make sure that they
worked. :)  I only wish the RAID part could've worked as is.

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Julian Elischer 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.
> 



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.21.0006122042360.11271-100000>