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>1. Introduction</H1
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> This document contains two main sections, the module setup, and the
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migration. Neither of these are documented anywhere on the net.
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>1.1. What?</H2
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> The Promise Fasttrak is a PCI Ultra 100 RAID Card. It can be
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used as a RAID card, or as standard IDE interfaces. This
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documentation DOES NOT address the issues of the 'ataraid' module,
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but addresses the issues of setting up the card with the propriety
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module 'ft', as supplied by 'Promise Technologies'.
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>1.2. Why?</H2
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> The documentation that comes with the module contains erroneous
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instructions that if followed, cause the card to not work properly.
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Also, upon looking over the internet for such documentation, I found
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a lack.
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>1.3. How?</H2
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> Using the Promise Technology module. The module that Promise
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Technologies provide works well, but the documentation they provide is
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somewhat lacking.
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> This document, <EM
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>Linux Migration to Promise RAID
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Card-HOWTO</EM
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>,
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is copyrighted (c) 2002 by <EM
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>Benjamin Simkin</EM
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>.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
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License, Version 1.1 or any later version published
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by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,
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with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.
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A copy of the license is available at
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>1.5. Disclaimer</H2
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> No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted.
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Use the concepts, examples and information at your own risk.
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There may be errors and inaccuracies, that could be damaging to
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your system. Proceed with caution, and although this is highly
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unlikely, the author does not take any responsibility.
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>1.6. Contact the Author</H2
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> You may email me (<TT
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>) with
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improvements and suggestions etc. Please include
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