Subject: FastTrak 66
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Kazushi (Jam) Marukawa <jam@pobox.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/30/2000 22:33:44
I just installed one FastTrak66 and boot NetBSD. NetBSD
recognizes this as native-PCI card and I can access drives
connected to FT66 as regular drives.
Only one problem I found is NetBSD recognizes FT66 first,
then recognizes i810 on-board IDE. However, BIOS recognizes
i810 first. So, BIOS loads NetBSD booter from i810 IDE.
NetBSD booter loads NetBSD from the other. Then, something
was screwed up. I cannot remount in rw mode either
/dev/wd0a (FT66) or /dev/wd1a (i810 IDE) as a root partition
from single user mode.
I need to return this card. So, I cannot test this anymore.
However, FT66 seems working as U66 under NetBSD.
Regards,
-- Kazushi
On Aug 30, 15:11, Kazushi (Jam) Marukawa wrote:
> Subject: Re: IDE UDMA hangs on BP6 (HPT366)
> > Ultra66 and Ultra100 are supported (in Ultra/66 mode only for
> > the later). Do you know what chip do the FastTrak use ? Maybe
> > it's the same chip ...
>
> FastTrak66 is identical to Ultra66. FastTrak100 is also
> identical to Ultra100. Differences are in BIOS and some
> patterns on the board.
>
> I can access RAID drives from DOS and Windows 98 without any
> drivers. It's slower than the speed with FT66/100 drivers,
> but it works. Under Windows 2000, I need drivers to access
> them.
>
> Both FTs install BIOS like SCSI cards. So, we can use
> drives as RAID drives through BIOS. However, if we want to
> access RAID from NetBSD directly, I think we need to read
> RAID configuration from hard drives (FT stores RAID
> information into hard drives) and access each drive along
> that configuration. It is very similar to the RAIDframe.
>
> By the way, I guess FT66 may works as U66 from NetBSD. I'll
> try it if I have a chance.
>
> Thanks,