Re: Promise RAID controller howto?

["Henning P . Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>]

Hi,

as far as I can see (you're talking about the "rel.tgz" archive from
the LinuxBETA directory, don't you?), this is just glue code for their
binary only "ftlib.o" driver.

No real open source here. Maybe Andre can work something from the
header structures.  But then again, the archive is dated 9/28/2000,
it's not exactly new...

	Regards
		Henning



On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:41:11PM +0200, Erik van Asselt wrote:
> Hmmmmm i have the Promise raid source for 2.2 kernel modules so what do you mean
> by opensource signatures
> 
> i have it working for 2.2 kernels but i can't get it to work properly in 2.4
> So if someone want to look at the source !!!
> it can be found on www.promise.com
> 
> Assie
> 
> Andre Hedrick schreef:
> 
> > 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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