Hi guys:

Here is what i have going on maybe you can help.

I have the Adaptec card with 2 60gig Matrox Drives attached to it in a P4 1.7Ghz
machine.  I have a CDrom on the primary IDE attached to the MB. When i try and
install Netbsd it does not see the card and the drive is there something i am
doing wrong in the setup.  Do i need a boot drive or do i have something hooked
up wrong.?  Any help would be really appreciated.

thanks
JoshJ

Andrew Doran wrote:

> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:
>
> > > Not much Compatibility listed for the newer higher end drives.  I am
> > > wondering and i hope someon can tell me if the following RAID cards will
> > > work in NetBSD:
> > > 1.)Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A?
> > > 2.)Promise ATA RAID cards?
> > >
> > > I have ATA100 Drives and would like to use them.  Either that or if you
> > > can suggest a SCSI Raid and Large Drive combo i would appreciate it.
> > > The drives need to be around 60gig.
> >
> > What model of Promise ?
> > The ones based on their original Ultra/100 chip (not the Ultra/100TX2) will
> > work, although you can't use the BIOS RAID feature (but Raidframe does a
> > good job for this).
> >
> > I don't know for the adaptec but the promise uses software RAID, so it's
> > not better than regular IDE adapters+ raidframe.
>
> The Adaptec 2400A is a "real" hardware RAID card. It uses the I2O interface,
> so it'll work with NetBSD-current. Based upon previous experience with DPT
> and Adaptec kit (including this particular board), I'd recommend it.
>
> Andrew