Subject: Re: Promise RAID 0 & 1
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/03/2003 11:25:29
>  > Jason Thorpe might be a bit ahead of you here; he added support for a
>  > Promise mirroring raid controller to NetBSD-current a week or so ago.
>  > I'd try booting -current on your system and see if it recognises the
>  > chip and a RAID set up using the BIOS; if it does, you "merely" need to
>  > back-port the driver to 1.6.
>
> Actually, so far it only supports RAID0 (I needed to be able to use
> the RAID0 on a new Intel server I acquired recently), but RAID1 should
> not be that hard to add.
>
will it have an option to work on ANY ide controller - as simpler
(and possibly non-buggy) version of raidframe?