It seems Mike Smith wrote:
> > It seems Mike Smith wrote:
> > > > Does anyone KNOW of these working under the
> > > > new drivers? What about setup?
> > > > I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99)
> > > > to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic
> > > > after that period. The hardware support lists don't mention
> > > > them either.
> > >
> > > They work OK, but you need to pull the BIOS (ie. not boot from them).
> >
> > Uhm, why is that exactly, I boot of one such bastard :)
>
> The FastTrak RAID controller? Last time I played with the one we have,
> it insisted on RAIDing any disks you attached to it. Since we don't
> support their on-disk metadata, that made it kinda hard to go anyhere.
I've looked at what they put on disk long ago, but I newer got to
make either ccd or vinum use that info, I'd rather see vinum and
the kernel grow this in a generic manner...
> Sounds like that's no longer the case, which is good news. 8)
It newer was, you just make a single onedisk "promise" partition and
dont use it, that way the BIOS is satisfied. BTW it not possible
to pull the BIOS on the newer ones ie the Fasttrak 66 & 100, the
BIOS is soldered in place. I guess one could degrade the Fasttrak
to an Ultra by flashing an Ultra BIOS image :)
At any rate the Promise Fasttrak is a "winraid" gimmick that is
close to useless, but its a fine way to trible the income off
ones ATA controller...
This can be done with any dual channel ATA controller, so I guess
its just a matter of time until we see this in the motherboard
BIOS on some boards....
-S�ren
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