promise fasttrack 378

harley88 · 29th Nov 2006, 03:22 AM

to start with i am a computer dumb old and dont know what promise fasttrack 378 or Raid is or what they do. but am looking for some help.
in my device manager i got: WinXP Promise Fasttrack 378 Controller and WinXP Promise RAID Console SCSI Processer Device running and working properly.

in my BIOS i got: OnBoard Promise Controller = [ENABLED]
and Operating Mode set to [RAID].
oh! and when i bootup i get something like bios not installed for fasttrack controller ( not sure about what it says).
this does not seem right to me what should i do?
do i need to unistall (how) or do i need it?
thanks
harley

Tricky1 · 29th Nov 2006, 02:15 PM

Dont uninstall. Go to Techarp Article database, go to the bottom of the page, Articles - Tweaks, and check out the
(RAID Optimization Guide). It will fill you in on Promise RAID.

TehTek · 6th Jan 2007, 01:30 PM

It's a Raid Controller , If you look inside your pc you have another EIDE or Sata Connection to connect a hard drive to it ie(Promise 378 controller) when another drive is connected you may configuer a Raid 0 or Raid 1 Server with it , www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html that site there will explain Raid ,

Psss!!! Go with Raid 0 (it's super speed for your pc)

Level 0 -- Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance: Provides data striping (spreading out blocks of each file across multiple disk drives) but no redundancy. This improves performance but does not deliver fault tolerance.

If one drive fails then all data in the array is lost.

29th Nov 2006, 03:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
harley88 Newbie Join Date: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	promise fasttrack 378 to start with i am a computer dumb old and dont know what promise fasttrack 378 or Raid is or what they do. but am looking for some help. in my device manager i got: WinXP Promise Fasttrack 378 Controller and WinXP Promise RAID Console SCSI Processer Device running and working properly. in my BIOS i got: OnBoard Promise Controller = [ENABLED] and Operating Mode set to [RAID]. oh! and when i bootup i get something like bios not installed for fasttrack controller ( not sure about what it says). this does not seem right to me what should i do? do i need to unistall (how) or do i need it? thanks harley

6th Jan 2007, 01:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
TehTek Newbie Join Date: 6 Jan 2007 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	FastTrack 378 It's a Raid Controller , If you look inside your pc you have another EIDE or Sata Connection to connect a hard drive to it ie(Promise 378 controller) when another drive is connected you may configuer a Raid 0 or Raid 1 Server with it , www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html that site there will explain Raid , Psss!!! Go with Raid 0 (it's super speed for your pc) Level 0 -- Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance: Provides data striping (spreading out blocks of each file across multiple disk drives) but no redundancy. This improves performance but does not deliver fault tolerance. If one drive fails then all data in the array is lost.

29th Nov 2006, 02:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
Tricky1 Newbie Join Date: 24 Nov 2006 Posts: 13 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Dont uninstall. Go to Techarp Article database, go to the bottom of the page, Articles - Tweaks, and check out the (RAID Optimization Guide). It will fill you in on Promise RAID.