>>>>> "ron" == Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ron> 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.
ron> I think that maybe all he is looking for is to use it as an ATA-100
ron> controller, which Mandrake probably supports now (I have 1 on-board
ron> Promise RAID chip in one machine and an ATA-100 PCI Promise
ron> controller in another. Both provide ATA100 performance in Mandrake
ron> 8.0 Unfortunately, a hard disk is still required on IDE0 for booting
ron> <grrrrr!>).
Nope. My main workstion has dis disks:
hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 0107, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
hdg: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
hde: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdg: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: ATAPI 126X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
If you are using a motherboard with a promise (mine has a VIA for
ide1/ide2 and a promise for ide3/ide4) you have a BIOS option.
Otherwise, in my experience, telling the BIOS that boot from SCSI
(yes, I know that ATA-100 is not SCSI, but the BIOS the only thing
that knows for the PCI board is that it is for storage, the same for
ATA than SCSI) did the trick for me.
Later, Juan.
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