Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:06:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller Message-ID: <200006111906.MAA14816@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:49:40 %2B0200." <200006111849.UAA97108@freebsd.dk>
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> It seems Mike Smith 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. > > > > They work OK, but you need to pull the BIOS (ie. not boot from them). > > Uhm, why is that exactly, I boot of one such bastard :) The FastTrak RAID controller? Last time I played with the one we have, it insisted on RAIDing any disks you attached to it. Since we don't support their on-disk metadata, that made it kinda hard to go anyhere. Sounds like that's no longer the case, which is good news. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the messagehelp
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