Re: Promise RAID controller howto?

[Wilfried Weissmann]

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

FreeBSD supports this ATA-RAID. I have got a printout of the sources here. From where did they get
the permissions/code/docs... to put it into their kernel?
Currently I am working on kernel 2.4 RAID support for HPT370 (also included in FreeBSD). I hope it
will work soon. I want to upgrade to debian-woody.

regards,
Wilfried

PS: You are right, these IDE-RAID "controllers" are pain.