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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:08:23PM -0500, Peter Elsner wrote:
> I don't know about the SX6000, but I have one on a motherboard (can't 
> recall what model), I think the Promise TX2000, that works fine.
> 
> the GENERIC kernel recognized it and configured it for a RAID 1 (striping 
> 2-80 gigs for a total of 160 gigs)...  It boots just fine off
> of that one.

The TX2000 and the SX6000 are quite different I believe.  That one works
doesn't say anything about the other.


> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> At 05:16 PM 4/17/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >--On 17 April 2003 11:53 -0400 Chris McGee <chris@xecu.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Has anyone successfully used the Promise SX6000 card with FreeBSD 4.7?  If
> >>so, what kind of configuration are you using?
> >
> >Bah, and as someone's just reminded me - you can't boot FreeBSD off it 
> >without building a bespoke boot floppy, as it's not in the generic kernel 
> >AFAIK...
> >

-- 
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se