From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 5 3:52:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2E437B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com (mailout10.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC9B43EB2 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18JuY2-0005WQ-06; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:52:06 +0100 Received: from dill.salatschuessel.net (520085340291-0001@[217.226.20.194]) by fmrl05.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18JuXx-0GNEZ6C; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:52:01 +0100 Received: (qmail 49667 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 11:52:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kartoffel.salatschuessel.net) (10.0.0.51) by dill.salatschuessel.net with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 11:52:00 -0000 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:51:59 +0100 From: Oliver Lehmann To: Sten Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootable RAID Controllers Message-Id: <20021205125159.6aeac84c.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20021205095031.38939cbf.lehmann@ans-netz.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6cvs15 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520085340291-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sten wrote: > Wether a raid controller is bootable depends on the srm support. Thats what i ask about.. I have no clue which RAID controllers my srm knowns. Actually I'm using the newest SRM which is available for this machine (v5.8). > Once FreeBSD is booted most raid controllers will work. And how to configure the raid? Is it possible to move inside these Configuration Utilityat boottime to configure the RAID? Otherwise how should i use such a controller w/o the ability to configure the drives within the controller configuration utility... > Booting from ide/floppy is usally the easiest way. Actually the machine boots from a Tekram DC 390U2W (SYM-895) Controller. But i would like to have the whole Sysmtem on a RAID-5 Host drive. Greetings, Oliver Lehmann -- Oliver Lehmann, lehmann@ans-netz.de, http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.pofo.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message