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Cc: Jeremy Kronuz <kronuz@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Booting from a DELL PV MD1000 using a PERC 5/E controller card
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On Thursday 08 February 2007 10:47, Jeremy Kronuz wrote:
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> Hey, does anybody know if it's possible to boot directly from an external 
> MD1000 array thru the PERC5/e RAID controller?

If the DELL BIOS supports it, it should work.

-- 
John Baldwin