From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 13 4:40: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F47537BB29; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 04:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA79133; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:39:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200006131139.NAA79133@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller In-Reply-To: from Jaye Mathisen at "Jun 12, 2000 08:44:29 pm" To: mrcpu@internetcds.com (Jaye Mathisen) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:39:44 +0200 (CEST) Cc: julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > 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. exactly. > 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. And one of these days (tm) I'll look at the info the Promise Fasttrak puts on the disk, so its possible to take over that setup with either ccd or vinum, but time is limitted as usual, and since its not a "real" RAID solution I'd rather see vinum be able to be used for booting, since it (or ccd) will have to be used anyways.... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message