Fasttrak100 is a software raid controller, The software is on a chip on the card. It
is not yet supported under linux for RAID. And no, there isnt a ATA/100 Escalade
yet.


dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote:

> >
> > However, if you want good (cheap) internal IDE RAID under
> > Linux, go with 3ware's Escalade 6xxx series.  It's yummy.
> >
>
> I'm planning on fiddling with IDE RAID a little.  I was going to go with a
> Promise Fasttrack 100, but this has peaked my interest.  Are the Escalades
> an internal RAID controller or an external RAID array?  It wasn't clear
> from their site.  Also, they didn't appear to support ATA/100 (well, they
> didn't mention it).
>
> Gabe
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