From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 31 13:17: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from meter.hydro.washington.edu (meter.hydro.washington.edu [128.95.246.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30F037B403; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@meter.hydro.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (penglish@localhost) by meter.hydro.washington.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6VKGxZ13290; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:16:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul English To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise UltraTrakTX4/TX8 In-Reply-To: <200107310900.f6V90Ld02431@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I'm wondering if anyone is using (or has used) the Promise > > UltraTrakTX4 or TX8 IDE raid arrays under FreeBSD. It is supposed to just > > show up as one SCSI device, so in theory it should work fine. Promise has > > tested it under Linux, but I'd just like to confirm a working setup while > > I consider getting one. > > Not supported. It's apparently a non-standard I2O device, and Promise > never responded when asked for documentation or sample hardware to work > with. It is probably just my ignorance, but I thought I20 was for devices which are adaptors (eg: a SCSI-like adaptor, or a network-like adaptor). The Promise UltraTrak is a disk array which connects via the SCSI bus, so the any I20 portion would be dealing with the SCSI adaptor, for which I plan to use an Adaptec 2940UW or somesuch which is well supported by FreeBSD. The UltraTrak TX4/8 are not adaptors in the same sense as all of the other Promise products, which are PCI devices. http://www.promise.com/Products/Default.htm Of course I can totally see Promise not being cooperative - that's the way it goes. Failing this I will just get an Arena IDE RAID array, which is the same sort of thing, but which I already have working with FreeBSD (it's just more expensive and slower). Thanks, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message