On Saturday 30 June 2001 12:10, Ron Stodden wrote:
> 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!>).
Well of course it could be really interesting if at least I could use ATA-100
controller with 2 hd making a sofware raid with Linux Mandrake. I issue the
problem that at the moment cooker installer just find 1 hd, so I cannot make
any raid with it.
I will wait next kernel's releases anyway, I think we are on the right way
now :)
C.
