Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 16:27:21 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID Driver for Promise Fastrak 100 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020528162721.03a78220@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <1022618768.6c64fffcjud@myrealbox.com>
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At 04:46 PM 5.28.2002 -0400, Jud wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- >From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:53:44 -0500 >Subject: RAID Driver for Promise Fastrak 100 > >I'm running 4.5-RELEASE and trying to sort out the support for the Onboard >Promise Fastrak 100 RAID controller. In the kernel, I don't see a matching >driver, but in HARDWARE.TXT, it says this controller is supported. Can I >safely assume one of the GENERIC-listed drivers will support it? > >Thanks for advice from anyone who has tried this... with success of >course.... > >.... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ > >Best regards, > >Jack L. Stone >Server Admin > >_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > >Yes, you assume correctly. :) > >Before the ASUS A7V333 that I'm using now, which has >a Fasttrak 133 onboard RAID chip (PDC20276), I ran >4-STABLE on an ASUS A7V-266-E with the Fasttrak 100 >onboard chip (PDC20265). It worked fine from my >regular floppy-and-CD install. Just be sure you >have the BIOS set up properly (jumper set to RAID, >RAID BIOS set up with functioning array, system set >with RAID array as a boot choice if that's what you >want). With no particular special settings during >install, FreeBSD recognized my RAID-0 array as ar0, >with ad2 and ad4 as the two subdisks. > >Jud > Hi, Jud: Thanks for the info. Glad for the feedback. I'm interested in trying RAID-1 with two new bare 40GB IDEs to do mirroring and the Motherboard documents the BIOS setup pretty well (and jumper), but nothing of course about compatibility with FBSD or any UNIX. Well, here's hoping....!! .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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