civileme wrote:
>
> Well, it si not a hardware RAID controller, so any RAID use of it
> depends on Promise to disclose the secret, proprietary software used.
> In other words it is a WinRAID.
>
> Andre Hedrick did get some information about promise FastTraks and
> made a drriver but it is basically limited to seeing one disk on one
> channel at current implementation.
>
> There are no plans. It cannot be supported without more information
> from Promise.
>
> But if it is a general problem, you might want to organize a
> "write-to-Promise day" with the others who are similarly concerned,
> say once a month. And f they starty getting lots of letters
> encouraging them to cooperate, then perhaps they will.
I think that maybe all he is looking for is to use it as an ATA-100
controller, which Mandrake probably supports now (I have 1 on-board
Promise RAID chip in one machine and an ATA-100 PCI Promise
controller in another. Both provide ATA100 performance in Mandrake
8.0 Unfortunately, a hard disk is still required on IDE0 for booting
<grrrrr!>).
--
Ron. [au]
