> I have been trying to follow the Promise Fastrack discussion. It appears
> that no-one (Promise) has a driver for the card under Linux. Does this
> mean that the card won't work at all or that fine tuning cannot be done
> with it?
> 
> I was hoping that the card would have a bios of it's own and that Linux
> would never see it (it would just represent itself as /dev/hda). Am I
> living in a dreamworld? Has it worked at all for anyone?
> 
> Thanks in advance, Todd
> 
> 

The card is recognized and performs as a standard IDE controller.  The
individual disks are seen (and accessable) from linux, which can be
a really bad thing if you have an exsisting array set up (from winblows).

Promise said they were 'working on it', whatever that means.

-Andrew

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