Is me , or do promise onboard RAID chips ....

Ahhh, no worries.
"Ruel Smith (Big Daddy)" wrote in message
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on Tue February 17 2004 11:58 am, nut cracker decided to enlighten us
with:

Not the same raid controller... i am working with a 267, not a 367.

It was a typo. Yes, I have the 267 controller. No problems with
installation.



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Big Daddy Ruel Smith

My SuSE Linux machine uptime:
4:59pm up 21:45, 2 users, load average: 0.84, 0.62, 0.36

My Windows XP machine uptime:
Something less...

I've 2 PC's here running on Promise RAID setups (and one on ITE - ITE raid
seems much slower), and have built loads of other PCs using the Promise Raid
chips, with very few problems. Just follow the instructions, load the
drivers using the "F6" option while your PC is setting up (helps to make
sure you have made the driver disk in advance) and everything should be
fine.

Tips: Try to use identical drives, it seems to help performance; especially
important if using more than 2 drives. In fact if you have non-identical
drives on the same channel you may well have problems in getting the
controller to work at all.

CrimsonLiar

Thanks...

the magic trick was having some lame file called fasttrak in a couple
places... i looked at the file before, but it didnt "seem" to be important.
I put it with the setuptxt file and he drivers file, and it was happy.
nothing i tried up until that point had worked, and I had tried just about
everything.

I am a raid veteran, but not when it comes to IDE raid... ask me about SCSI
or FibreChannel... EMC SAN storage or shared SCSI clustering. I have been
doin that stuff for years...

NuTs

"+CrimsonLiar" wrote in message
news
I've 2 PC's here running on Promise RAID setups (and one on ITE - ITE raid
seems much slower), and have built loads of other PCs using the Promise
Raid
chips, with very few problems. Just follow the instructions, load the
drivers using the "F6" option while your PC is setting up (helps to make
sure you have made the driver disk in advance) and everything should be
fine.

Tips: Try to use identical drives, it seems to help performance;
especially
important if using more than 2 drives. In fact if you have non-identical
drives on the same channel you may well have problems in getting the
controller to work at all.

CrimsonLiar