Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:12:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>, jim@nasby.net, laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020714004247.GB16279@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020713222745.00281f72.steve@sohara.org> 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> <20020713222745.00281f72.steve@sohara.org>
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On Saturday, 13 July 2002 at 22:27:45 +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:02:18 +0000 > Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> 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. I've been reading the atacontrol man page. It's not very clear, but you could be right. If so, it's a well-kept secret. There also appears to be no way to recover such a RAID 1 partition. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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