From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 13 13:27:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBF237B400; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 13:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.wanadoo.nl (smtp3.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9C543E58; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 13:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p2468.vwr.wanadoo.nl [194.134.217.173]) by smtp3.wanadoo.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id B88341B4B8; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 22:27:50 +0200 (MEST) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 22:27:45 +0200 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Josh Paetzel Cc: grog@FreeBSD.ORG, jim@nasby.net, laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-Id: <20020713222745.00281f72.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20020713100218.B284@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org> <20020713032546.GD61459@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020713075109.06ecf02f.steve@sohara.org> <20020713100218.B284@twincat.vladsempire.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:02:18 +0000 Josh Paetzel wrote: JP> atacontrol. You can't use atacontrol to make a standard non-raid JP> IDE controller do raid. So what is this bit of the atacontrol man page about then ? Allthough the ATA driver allows for creating an ATA RAID on disks on any controller, there are restrictions. It is only pos­ sible to boot on an array if its either located on a "real" ATA It seems to be about RAID on standard non-raid controllers to my poor eye. It does not mention that they will not work, only that there are boot restrictions. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message