I tried to use the new ar device support in the recently upgraded ATA driver in stable on a Promise FastTrak 100. I suceeded, and got suitable performance on ar0 with the following 2-disk combination only: controller channel #2, UDMA5 master and slave device. The following didn't yield an ar0 device (though the equivalent works on NT...) 1) using controller channel #1 !at all! - ie 2 UDMA5 devices, master Channel 1 master Channel 2 2) using a pair of UDMA-4 devices on channel #2 3) no 3-disk combinations at all There were no kernel changes, between combinations. When I ran "boot -v" the failure was always ( and I'm sorry about vague names - this is from memory as I am at work ) in ata-raid.c in the detect promise code, and in test1 - the strncmp() against a magic string. So, it seems that (and I appologise if I'm wrong, but by this time I was tired of trying combinations), by moving a pair of (master+slave) devices from channel2 to channel1 this strncmp seemed to fail to identify the promise controller for an ar device ? Any help would be appreciated as ideally I would like to use 3 x UDMA4 devices in an ar stripe. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
