Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:49:47 +1000 From: John Saunders <john@nlc.net.au> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise FasTrak 66 IDE RAID Message-ID: <38F7D8CB.B27A9158@nlc.net.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004130959340.35828-100000@thud.tbe.net>
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"Gary D. Margiotta" wrote:
> Ok, I was flipping through the archives, but wasn't really sure on an
> answer about this:
>
> Does the Fastrak 66 RAID controller work under 4.0 (actually doing
> RAID, not just as a UDMA/66 controller)?
>
> I know support was added for the 'normal' Promise cards with the new ata
> driver. However, I didn't see anything mentioned about the Fastrak and
> the ability to do IDE RAID.
Nope. The "RAID" features of the card are actually done inside the BIOS
which of course is only used in a DOS/Windows environment. As far as
any UNIX system is concerned, you have an expensive IDE controller,
and you need to use something like vinum or ccd anyway.
Interestingly, you can modify the normal Promise UDMA/66 card to allow
a FLASH upgrade to the Fastrak BIOS software. With this done it becomes
a RAID card - under DOS/Windows. Please note that this is highly
illegal and not a suggested practice.
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