Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-25 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: On 24 Feb 1999 18:39:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: Hmm, which suggests that I need to leave the do it by hand code in there and recommend removing the BIOS :( Are there any plans to support the Promise Fast Trak IDE RAID controller ?

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:49 AM 2/25/99 , Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: On 24 Feb 1999 18:39:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: Hmm, which suggests that I need to leave the do it by hand code in there and recommend removing the BIOS :( Are there any plans to support the

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-25 Thread Jake
Well, sortof, the FastTrak is AFAIK the exact same HW as the Ultra33, just with a more advanced BIOS that does the RAID stuff. The current planned support is to use it just as a Ultra33 controller, and then use ccd to do the RAID magic under FreeBSD. Interesting. So the BIOS doesnt

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread Martin Cracauer
In 199902230725.caa02...@y.dyson.net, John S. Dyson wrote: Søren Schmidt said: It should work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should work just

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Martin Cracauer wrote: In 199902230725.caa02...@y.dyson.net, John S. Dyson wrote: Søren Schmidt said: It should work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card at a time, but from looking at the

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 24 Feb 1999 18:39:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: Hmm, which suggests that I need to leave the do it by hand code in there and recommend removing the BIOS :( Are there any plans to support the Promise Fast Trak IDE RAID controller ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread John S. Dyson
Martin Cracauer said: In 199902230725.caa02...@y.dyson.net, John S. Dyson wrote: Søren Schmidt said: It should work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card at a time, but from looking at the chip

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-23 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems John S. Dyson wrote: Søren Schmidt said: It should work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should work just fine, and if the hardware works,

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-23 Thread John S. Dyson
Søren Schmidt said: It seems John S. Dyson wrote: Søren Schmidt said: It should work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should work just fine,

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Manuel Bouyer wrote: Hi, I initially intended to ask this to John Dyson, but I don't know how to reach him. Maybe someone else on this list can anserw :) I'm looking for documentations about the promise PCI IDE controller, to add support for this in NetBSD. Does someone know how John

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Søren Schmidt writes: If you have questions, I might be able to answer, having just written the support for our new ata/atapi system Is this new ata/atapi system the rumored rewrite of the existing IDE (i386/isa/wd.c, /pci/ide_pci.c) driver? How close are you to completion? I

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: Søren Schmidt writes: If you have questions, I might be able to answer, having just written the support for our new ata/atapi system Is this new ata/atapi system the rumored rewrite of the existing IDE (i386/isa/wd.c, /pci/ide_pci.c) driver?

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Søren Schmidt writes: Is this new ata/atapi system the rumored rewrite of the existing IDE (i386/isa/wd.c, /pci/ide_pci.c) driver? How close are you to completion? Yes. I have ATA disks running, and I'm close to having the ATAPI part done also. So far things are looking very

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread John S. Dyson
Søren Schmidt said: It should work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should work just fine, and if the hardware works, at least the new driver will support