On 18 Feb 2001, at 0:16, Andrew Gillham wrote:

> Well, it would be nice to have NetBSD able to share the "drive" with
> other HPT RAID aware operating systems.

Hi,

I think the problem here is the policy of the manufacturer. Working 
together with Promise I found they had the problem, that their 
standard IDE controller differs only in having one resistor less and 
the lack of the Bios software to the raid controller. Even today 
companies sell modified ide controllers (one additional resistor 
soldered and the bios flashed with the raid software) as raid 
controllers. If they would give away information about their software 
and it was implemented in a driver, there was no need to buy the 
raid controller anymore, because you had the same functionality 
with their standard IDE controller.

I suppose the same is true for the other IDE Raid controllers.

mike