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From: Richard Collyer <richard@firebadger.net>
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Subject: Re: Promise Technology RAID Controller
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PATRICK CARTER wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I was looking at getting a hardware RAID controller (that supports RAID 5) for my system and I saw the FastTrak SX4100 from Promise Technology.  I didn't see FreeBSD listed under their list of supported operating systems and I was wondering if anyone knew weather or not anyone knew if there exists a driver that works for FreeBSD.

http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/5-STABLE/hardware/i386/support.html#DISK

change 5-STABLE for OS of choice and take a look. I'd hazard a guess at 
it is simply by the number of other adaptec cards listed.

Richard