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Re: promise supertrak sx6000 crashes XFree86



pascal wrote:
>>with 2.6: the promise driver is not ported to 2.6; but 2.6 vanilla does
>>support it as a normal pci adapter. you can then use it for
>>software-raid via the device mapper.
> 
> By this you mean, you can't compile the driver against a 2.6 kernel?
> Like in the 2.4?

this means, that the driver from promise.com (which uses the hardware
features of the card) only runs with 2.4.

in 2.6, you can use the card as a normal ata card. 2.6 does recognize
the card as a normal ata card, 2.4 does not recognize it at all without
the promise.com driver.

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