Promise Technology RAID Controller

[PATRICK CARTER]

I did not see it listed and afaik there is no official support.  The nearest thing I saw was a manual entry on ataraid from quite a while back suggesting that RAID 5 wasn't supported, but I was wondering if anyone had managed to get any success with the card (since from my understanding ataraid is for OS controlled RAID and I'm looking at a hardware/firmware controller). Also, I did forget to mention that the system in question is FreeBSD 6.1 and I'm looking to boot off of this array (although if anyone was a working system that won't boot from the array I'm still interested).


Thanks
--Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Collyer <richard at firebadger.net>
Date: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:52 am
Subject: Re: Promise Technology RAID Controller

> PATRICK CARTER wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I was looking at getting a hardware RAID controller (that 
> supports RAID 5) for my system and I saw the FastTrak SX4100 from 
> Promise Technology.  I didn't see FreeBSD listed under their list 
> of supported operating systems and I was wondering if anyone knew 
> weather or not anyone knew if there exists a driver that works for 
> FreeBSD.
> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/5-
> STABLE/hardware/i386/support.html#DISK
> change 5-STABLE for OS of choice and take a look. I'd hazard a 
> guess at 
> it is simply by the number of other adaptec cards listed.
> 
> Richard
>