Re: Promise RAID controller howto?

[Andre Hedrick]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I know, that this is a FAQ and the Promise RAID controller card is not
> yet usable as a RAID board under Linux 2.x but is there a way to use
> the controller just like the UltraATA 100 controller?

It is not a raid board ... it is a raid lie

> I know, that "input high == UltraATA core, input low = RAID core"
> according to Andre Hedrick but I really don't care about the RAID
> core. I want to use this controller to drive JBOD.

Wrong, if Promise will opensource the signatures then we map the software
raid against that location and use Linux's soft-raid.

> Can one do this? The disks need not to be interchangeable to other
> controllers.  Just be accessible.
> 
> 2.2 solutions preferred, 2.4 ok.
> 
> 	Regards
> 		Henning
> 
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Andre Hedrick
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