Ward,
I purchased one last week - A FastTrak66
(which is perhaps not the 'FastTrack' you mentioned.
Its detects as a 'PCI - Mass Storage Controller'
(in the Bios startup) and unless there is some
'emulate an IDE drive' mode that I missed it
won't work.
Its a cool idea tho.
This might be better http://www.icp.net.au/raid1/default.htm
(I should have one of these today).
Ive also tried http://www.accordance.com.tw/araid-(1).html
bu Im getting odd disk errors and strange panics when the
system is idling along (but make world works fine .... -
Ive just received a list of preferred drives from these guys
and i'll be testing this today/tomorrow as well).
Cheers
Richard
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ward R Goodwin
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 September 1999 6:55
> To: Mike Smith
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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> Subject: RE: Help - Fasttrak eide raid host adapter and FreeBSD
>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I guess (unless lightning strikes in the
> next few hours) I'll go ahead and set up as 2 IDE drives without
> mirror and see if I can get FreeBSD to see it. If that doesn't
> work then back to the motherboard IDE channels...
>
> BTW it might be software but it's bios level. Just after the
> motherboard bios access. Just like when you use scsi raid
> controllers. So if they get it right it should be able to emulate
> a "standard" IDE drive and not require drivers...
>
> I was hoping someone had a hack that could translate from what the
> card bios shows and allow me to go ahead and load FreeBSD.
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Ward
>
> Ward Goodwin System Administrator EmpireOne
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> Systems are interdependent, I'm indeterminate
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Anyone have this working?
> >
> > The FastTrak RAID is performed in software; the
> > hardware on the board
> > itself is just an ordinary two-channel IDE controller.
> >
> > Promise claim they will be releasing a Linux driver
> > sometime later this
> > year; the situation will be re-evaluated at that point.
>
>
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