ASAIK Andre GPL'd the driver and it has supposedly been in the kernel since 2.2, but still it doesn't work right. I installed SUSE and it at lease came a bit closer to working but it still only recognized the 1st channel too. So I went back to 2000 just to find out promise doesn't support 2 fasttrak's in one machine in windows. This whole promise fasttrak BS is for the birds, I wouldn't care so much but I got the cards for free (not so free when you consider the time I have spent trying to get them to work) and I don't have $ sitting around for a decent controller (see motherboard cost:)). Well thank's for chatting about it, looks like I am SOL and promise is giving its users the big bird for support. You would think that a company that try's to push off lame soft raid cards for $99 would at least have the decency to support them for the money they are making. I mean is it REALLY to much to ask for a decent driver? Guess so. >From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "John Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] M694D, Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fastrack 66/100, >Lockups, only sees one channel >Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 09:34:58 -0700 > >On Friday 18 May 2001 09:45, John Clark wrote: > > I understand how the controller works, I just want a driver that works >with > > it. I don't care how the drives come up I just want to be able to use > > them, software raid or not. > > > > > > From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >To: "John Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: Re: [newbie] M694D, Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fastrack 66/100, > > >Lockups, only sees one channel > > >Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:28:34 -0700 > > > > > >On Thursday 17 May 2001 07:32, John Clark wrote: > > > > I have a MSI 694D motherboard with onboard VIA 686a chipset ide > > > > > >controller > > > > > > > and Promise FastTrak 100 w/ lite bios. > > > > I also have an additional Promise FastTrak 66 with full bios. > > > > > > > > I am trying to use Mandrake 8.0 > >Well, the best thing to do is write to Promise and encourage them to issue >more information on their controller. There may be a driver for RH by now >that will work with kernel 2.4 but all 2.4s seem to be having some trouble >with Promise FasTraks, especially since 2.4.3-ac5. You can read about it >in >the kernel-traffic mailing list. > >The point is, if Promise doesn't write one, and doesn't provide enough >information to others to write one, there will be no driver. Other distros >might enter a Non-Disclosure Agreement and provide a binary-only driver, >but >if we did something like that, we would lose most of the folks who help us, >overnight. We have to be part of the culture that made us. > >Finally, that VIA bug is a real bug, with the chipset, and it can be >corrected and worked around by setting up the PCI resources differently in >the BIOS-I urge you to update the BIOS before you try copying several >hundred >megabytes between disks. It is a logic race condition between competing >IDE >channels. > >Civileme _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
