From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 20:50:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-03-real.cdsnet.net (mail-03-real.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8C8E37B98C for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 86401 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2000 03:50:25 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail-03-real.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 13 Jun 2000 03:50:25 -0000 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:44:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: Julian Elischer Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller In-Reply-To: <39431747.41C67EA6@elischer.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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