IIRC, neither the fasttrak nor the fasttrak66 are REALLY hardware raid. did
you actually think you could get hardware raid from something that costs less
that 60 bucks US?
they do all the 'hardware' in software, onboard is only a rom, no cpu to do
any real work.
linux software raid over one of these things is basically the same as one of
these boards running the windows driver... (only it isnt under windows, thank
goodness)
allan
Peter Frischknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> This may not apply, and I may not have done it correctly, but I have a
> FastTrak (It only does 33).
> Linux has support for the chipset utilized by the FastTrak, but at boot time
> it can see both hard drives. I struggled for days trying to make it work as
> a hardware RAID, but I never succeded.
> My original intent was to use the FastTrak as a Hardware based controller,
> but I had to end up using software raid which was not as transparent and
> maintenance free.
> I ended up buying a card from 3ware. For $105 I got a complete Hardware
> based RAID 1 using IDE drives for a fraction of the price.
> I still have the FastTrak, but I may just use it for a Windows machine,
> where it is supported.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Peter Frischknecht
> Empowering Solutions, Inc.
> http://www.empoweringsolutions.com
> Phone: 864-6546544 x103
> Fax: 864-6540022
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Seidel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 4:57 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: Promise FastTrak66
> >
> >
> > I'm sure we discussed this before but I can't find the topics in the
> > archive. Is the IDE HW Raid Promise FastTrak66 supported by
> > linux and where
> > can I get the drivers/tools from? Any support for SuSE 6.4 ??
> >
> > Thanx
> > Thomas
> >
>
