[WBEL-users] Promise Fasttrack100 non-RAID support

Milan Kerslager milan.kerslager@pslib.cz
Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:02:17 +0100


On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:59:22AM +0100, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> I've been looking at Whitebox and am considering it for one of my boxes 
> here. Only thing I need to know before switching is this :
> 
> Does the stock kernel automatically detect the Promise Fasttrack100 IDE 
> controller, and can I use disks hooked up to it in non-RAID mode with it 
> without too much configuration headaches?

Yes (PDC20265/PDC20267/PDC20268 chipset).

SW RAID is available as a module or you can use kernel md mirrorring (I
use md only).

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