Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > I have many of them up and running under 4.0, but they will only function > as normal IDE controllers, not "RAID". > > As to teh BIOS issue, make a stripe, then make your partition that you're > using not stomp on the end of the drive, and it won't overwrite tha

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-12 Thread Jaye Mathisen
I have many of them up and running under 4.0, but they will only function as normal IDE controllers, not "RAID". As to teh BIOS issue, make a stripe, then make your partition that you're using not stomp on the end of the drive, and it won't overwrite that gook that the promise sticks out there.

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-12 Thread Jaye Mathisen
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > 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 Promise already sells a MB with this BIOS on it. Never got one, but saw it on the web p

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
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 perio

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Julian Elischer
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 eithe

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
> 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 men

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
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 > > the

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
> 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 t

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Julian Elischer wrote: > Does anyone KNOW of these working under the > new drivers? What about setup? They are supported by the ATA driver, setup as usual, ie none they just work... > I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) > to get tehm going but the archives are silent on th

Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-10 Thread Julian Elischer
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. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer /