From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 20 13:56:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kermit.empireone.net (kermit.empireone.net [207.111.39.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA30414C59; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin2@empireone.net) Received: from EntWood (EntWood.empireone.net [209.118.194.235]) by kermit.empireone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA09747; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:56:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ward R Goodwin" To: "Mike Smith" Cc: , , Subject: RE: Help - Fasttrak eide raid host adapter and FreeBSD Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:55:13 -0400 Message-ID: <004001bf03aa$6f022b40$eb64640a@EntWood.empireone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <199909202036.NAA01092@dingo.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Mike, Thanks for the reply. I guess (unless lightning strikes in the next few hours) I'll go ahead and set up as 2 IDE drives without mirror and see if I can get FreeBSD to see it. If that doesn't work then back to the motherboard IDE channels... BTW it might be software but it's bios level. Just after the motherboard bios access. Just like when you use scsi raid controllers. So if they get it right it should be able to emulate a "standard" IDE drive and not require drivers... I was hoping someone had a hack that could translate from what the card bios shows and allow me to go ahead and load FreeBSD. Thank you for your time, Ward Ward Goodwin System Administrator EmpireOne wardish@null.net admin1@empireone.net 17 Computer Drive East Phone (518) 453-1111 Fax (518) 489-6706 Albany, NY 12205 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Systems are interdependent, I'm indeterminate > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Smith [mailto:mike@smith.net.au] > > Anyone have this working? > > The FastTrak RAID is performed in software; the > hardware on the board > itself is just an ordinary two-channel IDE controller. > > Promise claim they will be releasing a Linux driver > sometime later this > year; the situation will be re-evaluated at that point. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message