At 12:00 13.03.00, Frank Joerdens wrote:
>Has anyone played with the FastTrak66 Ultra ATA/66 RAID Card (info at
>http://www.promise.com/Products/ideraid/ft66page.htm)? Is anyone working
>on a driver for Linux (I've seen that the FreeBSD people are at it)? I
>think the idea
>of having IDE HW RAID is pretty cool. They even provide an IDE hotswap
>kit. Any support for Linux on the horizon?
I've got one of these cards lying around for testing.
Current status: No linux driver available.
Future prospects: According to an anser I got this weekend from promis
support, a driver for redhat 6.1 will be released within the next 30 days.
Original mail from support:
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:06:28 -0800
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Hi,
We will be releasing Linx 6.1 drivers in about 30 days.
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Also worth a look: http://www.3ware.com - they've got hardware IDE Raid
(0/1) controllers for 2 / 4 / 8 Drives (= 2/4/8 seperate channels). They
already have linux support (Driver source included with card, driver source
also included in 2.2.15pre kernels and updates included in Andre Hedricks
IDE patches. I'm currently testing these as well. Setup of raid devices is
done using the controller bios.
Positive: Performance is nice, handling of failing disks worked flawlessly
so far, drivers in kernel + available as source. Monitoring tool available
to get the current status of the raid devices + Event notifications
(Reconstruction finished, drive failed..). Rebuilding of mirrors runs as
background operation during normal system operation.
Negative: The monitoring tool is currently very basic and not available in
source, I'd have liked to add a few things. There's an issue with recovery
from power failure/reset that support is still working on, will hopefully
be resolved shortly(?)
Bye, Martin
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