IDE RAID and FreeBSD

Jud judmarc at fastmail.fm
Tue Apr 8 17:13:43 PDT 2003


On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:54:09 -0600, Lord Sith <lordsith49 at hotmail.com> 
wrote:

[snip]
> What about Promise cards? I know they don't have a FreeBSD management 
> utility,

Sure they do - atacontrol.  Check the ata and atacontrol man pages.

> but if they are stable enough I guess I can rebuild the array within the 
> BIOS utility.

That too.  I've happily used -STABLE and -CURRENT with Promise onboard 
chips (PDC-20265 and PDC-20276, respectively equivalent to the Promise ATA- 
100 and ATA-133 cards).

Jud



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