Re: Re: RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376(FastTrak376)(rev02)

Goswin wrote: I expect the raid chips will actually improve in the future and wonder when they will arrive. Some of the older SCSI RAID controllers were probably fairly good and the newer SATA RAID controllers should have been introduced with at least that capability. Why should they improve? There

Re: Re: RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak376)(rev02)

David Liontooth wrote: Both Fasttrack and Via are now supported -- cf. the Linux software raid dmraid driver at http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid, which lists these: Highpoint HPT37X Highpoint HPT45X Intel Software RAID LSI Logic MegaRAID NVidia NForce Promise FastTrack Silicon Image Medl

Re: Debian-amd64 sarge fresh install

Tong wrote: Could someone compile a quick reference on "fresh installing Debian-amd64 sarge" for experienced Debian user please? By "for experienced Debian user" I mean, focus on bare-bone while omitting all "detailed-howtos" +++ I installed debian-amd64 sarge about a week ago witho

Re: XF86Config-4 fixes for glxgears

sarge netinst debian-pure64 wrote: My XF86Config-4 had dri after glx out of order causing this: This is sarge debian-pure64 with 2.6.8 kernel and sarge XFree86 4.3.0.1 +++ Sorry, this was my fault not sarge. I don't want to set off alarms. The XF86Config-4 after sarge was installe

XF86Config-4 fixes for glxgears

My plain XFree86 is now just as fast as Xorg and without fglrx! My XF86Config-4 had dri after glx out of order causing this: Section "Module" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load"extmod" Load"freetype" Load"int10"

Re: Re: Re: Re: RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak376)(rev02)

Len Sorensen wrote: With the current trend of "win*" devices with more and more loading firmware by driver, and off loading processing to the CPU all in the name of cutting manufacturing costs (and wasting the end users expensive cpu) I doubt we are going to get real raid chips on the mainboard eve

Re: Re: Re: RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak376)(rev02)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think the Promise RAID mode is a TOY RAID controller. > > What about Intel and Sil? This seems to be a problem with > i386 also for all motherboards with a TOY RAID in the BIOS. > > Thanks for the links. The VIA RAID mode and Promise RAID > mode have a BIOS ROM

sarge Installation Report

> Hello Everybody- This is a fresh installation of sarge using the sarge-amd64-netinst.iso of 20 Feb 05. My hardware is AMD64 with ASUS A8V Deluxe Pro and VIA sata+ide controllers. Here is my sources.list used for this installation: #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.