Re: Help on FastTrack Ultra66 card

From: Forwarded SuSE Mail (suse@linux-ide.org)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 23:48:15 EST


That code is under review at Promise. I am working with them to be sure
that there are no violations of GPL or their IP. That is all that I will
say. At this point in time "FastTrack Ultra66" will not be addressed via
the ATA command set!

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Chris Chabot wrote:

> Hi, Ive bought a couple of the promise ultra66 FASTtrack cards, and im
> trying to get it working in my linux system (rh6.2 w/ 2.3.99pre6 to be
> specific).
>
> When i bring up the system (w/ pdc202xx compiled into the kernel), it
> recognises the card, and gives me 2 extra ide drives (hde and hdf in
> this case), but there's 4 drives attached to the card (specificly 4x
> maxtor 92xxxx's, 20gb disks).
>
> Also im wondering if its posible to support the raid part of this card,
> if so, are there any docs on doing so? ive searched all the
> howto's/man's/etc but havent been able to find any reference on how to
> get this working ..
>
> So if any one can give me any pointers to either detect all 4 drives (so
> i can linux raid them) or get the fasttrack raid feature to work under
> linux (prefered!), i would be forever greatfull..
>
> -- Chris Chabot
>
>

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Apr 30 2000 - 21:00:17 EST