Re: FastTrak Driver for X86_64

[Samuel Flory <sflory rackable com>]

Samuel Flory wrote:
> James C. Bevier wrote:
>
> > I have a ASUS K8V SE Deluxe motherboard with
> > a Promise PDC 20378 Raid controller.  I have 2
> > 160GB IDE drives attached.  I am running Raid 0
> > and I can see them from Win2K.  The driver for
> > Linux that came with the card is for 2.4.20-8 and
> > I want to use FC2 Test1 system.  Where can I find
> > a kernel with support for this device?  Or source?
> > Or modules? Or?  I would also like to run on FC1.
>
>   The fasttrak driver is only availble as a binary module.  You will 
> need to talke to Promise to get an updated driver.
>
> FYI- If promise is doing what it's always done.  There might be a FC 1 
> driver in 6 months.  Maybe

  Ohh wait you wanted a driver for amd64.  Realize that promise doesn't 
currently provide a driver for any amd64 OS.  Which has pissed off a 
number of vendors who've embedded the chispet on their amd64 
motherboards.  At this point you'd be better off hoping that someone 
will port the ataraid driver to 2.6.
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Sam Flory  <sflory rackable com>