Jeffrey Paul wrote:
>
>
> The Promise card (ide interface) support in the ide patch seems to work
> wonderfully. However, it's for the ide side of promise things (i.e.
> ultra33, ultra66, dunno about ultra100 support). The promise raid cards
> are essentially bogus. They are the same as their dual-channel
> normal-ide counterparts, in fact, recently someone discovered a hack for
> the ultra66 (you add one resistor and flash the bios) to make it a fully
> functional fasttrak66 raid card (which costs twice as much). As far as
> using raid on the card, from what I understand you need special
> (windows) drivers, and it presents itself as a scsi interface to windows
> or somesuch. I don't think you can use the 'hardware' raid of this card
> under linux. However, I am using an ultra66 (the non-raid version of
> the fasttrak66) and linux 2.2 software raid 0.90 backport, and it works
> great.
>
> You might try using the linux-ide patch and seeing if you can just use
> the interfaces on the promise card and then software raid them (I'm
> pretty sure the "hardware raid" won't present itself as a single logical
> drive without their bogon-emitting windows drivers), or, sell the card
> and get an ultra100 (the same card, only cheaper :) and do the same thing.
>
>
>> I believe you need the latest ide patch from www.linux-ide.org. It
>> includes updated drivers for most ide controllers as well as the promise
>> controllers. I use the PIIX drivers from that patch so I can't get more
>> specific than that.
>>
>> -Kristian Hoffmann
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, NeoTech wrote:
>>
>>> I have bought a IDE raid controller (promise fastrak100) and i
>>> wonder if
>>> you got ne tips to get it to work under linux. i run debian 2.2 potato,
>>> and it wont worker.. quite nagging.. i try to run striped RAID0.. Ne
>>> tips i will be gratefull...
>>>
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Right.. The Ultra series cards (addon UltraDMA cards) are supported
directly by the kernel (at least in 2.4test). However, the FastTrack
controllers are IDE RAID.. and dont work with the kernel driver as of
yet. Promise has the driver source on their ftp site.
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