Refering to the bogon flux noted below... Unless you use the magic windows drivers you won't get the magic windows speed. They do some crazy tuning with that controller and won't tell the linux driver developer how to do it; or so I've heard. Last I heard he just gave up on the driver. -Kristian On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, 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... > >> > >> - > >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > >> the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > >- > >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 0xCD91A427 > 9907 3747 3CE9 11C5 2B1C F141 D09F 488C CD91 A427 > Note: key id 0x299450B6 is lost and inactive. > -------------------------------------------------- > Copyright 2000 Jeffrey Paul. > The information contained in this message may be > privileged and confidential and protected from > disclosure. If the reader of this message is not > the intended recipient, or an employee or agent > responsible for delivering this message to the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any dissemination, distribution or copying of this > communication is strictly prohibited. Thank you. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
