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On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:12 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
>> Like I mentioned before, lsdev only showed me a single drive.
>
> Then the 3ware BIOS doesn't let the boot software see your second  
> drive,
> so there's no way to load /boot/loader off that drive since boot2 and
> the loader both rely on the BIOS to talk to drives.  End of story.

Okay, that's what I suspected.  So booting from CD and using "lsdev"  
at the loader prompt really is the best/only way to confirm what the  
BIOS provides?

And thanks for taking the time to answer all of this, I deeply  
appreciate it.

-- 
Jo Rhett
senior geek
Silicon Valley Colocation