bootstrapping

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Friday 31 October 2003 22:00, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> I'm wondering about the promise fasttrack 378 RAID controller. I picked up
> one (1) SATA drive, and stuck it to the promise connectors. While the
> controller sees the drive on bootup, once the kernel boots (and reports
> ata[234] on atapci1) there's no devices there to speak of. Is this a normal
> phenomenon? A driver issue? Have I been a moron to think that a RAID
> controller can also act like a plain ata bus?

This was just me being foolish. The new slimmer cable doesn't obviate the need 
for a 4-pin molex power connector. Doing newfs on the drive, though, gets me 
a GPF panic, Stopped at getdirtybuf+0x2d: decl %eax. Guess it's NFS mount 
then for the sources.