From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 11 12: 3:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D1ED37B5F4; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA14816; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:06:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200006111906.MAA14816@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Soren Schmidt Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:49:40 +0200." <200006111849.UAA97108@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:06:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 message