Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:13:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@mail.allcaps.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atacontrol metadata storage Message-ID: <20020826130855.S46242-100000@mail.allcaps.org> In-Reply-To: <20020826115002.P60837-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: > > > How and where is atacontrol storing its metadata for the RAID > > configurations? > > Its a format internal to the Promise ATA RAID controllers. I believe they > place it in the protected area of the disk reserved for such things. Ummm, really? That's interesting since I don't actually *have* a Promise ATA RAID controller in the box I'm doing these experiments on. > well it would sort of suck if it got lost on reboots :) Root RAID works > since the RAIDing is done in hardware. Root RAIDing worked just fine without any hardware RAID support at all. RAID rebuilding, on the other hand ... -a To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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