question about fasttrack66

[Guci]

Hai

I am planning to buy promise fasttrack 66 en one more HD of 27 GB because I have one 27 GB already and one old HD of 8,4 GB.

My question is can I use 2 HD of 27 GB with promise fasttrack for video capture and playback avi files and then use the 8,4 HD indenpendently at normal IDE port in other word seperately from fasttrack 66. AT the end I will have 3 HD 2 with fasttrack and 1 with IDE port for may system.

Is it possibble?

Thanks for any advice and information.

[This_Idiot]

Hi Guci,

I don't know the FT66, but I think the same basic precepts apply as to the FT33.

Yes, you can run the 8.4 directly from the mobos IDE port as well as running the raid array from the FT. In fact you could run all 4 mobo devices and then another 4 from the FT.

I don't know what the current advice from Promise is, but at one time they supported running 2 FT cards as well as the motherboards own, giving you the option of running up to 4 independent devices and a raid array of up to 8 drives.

Doc M will probably have something to say on this, he uses FT all the time and has tried out numerous configurations.

[CarterTG]

My system is setup with:

[C:] IBM 10.1g 7200rpm UDMA33 on ABIT BH6's IDE channel 1. This holds Win98 & all programs. On IDE channel 2 of the same motherboard is an identical [D:] drive once dedicated to my G200 captures. A slave on IDE channel 2 is a generic CD-ROM [F:] drive.

My FastTrak66 is on the first PCI slot closest to the AGP slot. Each of its two ATA66 connectors control an IBM 13.5g 7200rpm ATA66 drive giving me a ~26gig [E:] RAID.

So the simple answer to your question is YES.


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Carter
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Abit BH6 v1.02 ATX motherboard
Celeron 433mhz Slot1
128mb PC100 SDRAM
[C:] IBM 10.1gig 7200rpm UDMA33
[D:] IBM 10.1gig 7200rpm UDMA33
[E:] FastTrak66 RAIDed 2x13.5 7200rpm UDMA66
[F:] 24x CD-ROM
[G:] SanDisk USB CompactFlash reader
Matrox Marvel G200 TV AGP
Canopus DVRaptor PCI
SBLive Value PCI
DLink Ethernet PCI
v.90 modem PCI
Win98, MSP 5.2
Canon L2
Canon XL1

[Guci]

Hai

Thanks for your responds to my question!!!!

[jrr]

I was looking at another interesting forum on disk controllers etc
http://www.safety-online-internet.co...lers&number=3&

and someone suggested that the Fastrak implepents its RAID in software - is this true. Would a Promise Ultra/66 setup with an NT strip set give similar performance?

James

[SDDS]

Cool system Carter, I have an XL1 also!

P3-500
128 ECC RAM
G400 MAX connected to 19" Trinitron and waiting to plug into older 15" when new driver is out!
SOHO PCI Ethernet
FastTrak/33 PCI IDE RAID
[c:] 8.4GB Maxtor partitioned (2GB)
[d:] 26GB - 2 13.6 Maxtor on first RAID array
[e:] 55GB - 2 27.5 Maxtor on second array
[f:] 6GB - the rest of the 8.4
[g:] 24X SCSI CDROM
[h:] 16x4x4 Yamaha SCSI CD-RW
[i:] SCSI ZIP
Digital Origin Firewire card (PCI)
Turtle Beach Montego PCI
Initio UW SCSI PCI
All Running on Win2000 only and working

Canon XL-1
Panasonic AG-DV2000
JVC SVHS