From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 12 4: 8:13 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 3B67237B42C for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 04:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA47224; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:10:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200009121110.NAA47224@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Promise FasTrack66 IDE RAID controller In-Reply-To: <200009121058.e8CAw6d03042@charon.cs.uoi.gr> from Spyros Melissovas at "Sep 12, 2000 01:58:06 pm" To: peppe@charon.cs.uoi.gr (Spyros Melissovas) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:10:36 +0200 (CEST) Cc: hackers@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 Spyros Melissovas wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there is any kind of support for the Promise FasTrack66 > IDE RAID controller We support it already as a normail ATA controller... > AFAIK the controller needs a driver which will use the made-up disk geometry > instead of the individual disks attached to it. > > Is anybody in the process of developing something for this controller? I have some submitted patches lying around, and have gotten info from HighPoint how they do their version of the SW RAID stuff. I'm working on getting this done generically and cover both the Promise and the HPT chips, and any other ATA controllers for that matter... Watch this space for further announcements... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message