From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 13 17:42:53 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 A4E2337B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5387E43E4A for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:42:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 36A0281290; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:12:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:12:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Steve O'Hara-Smith Cc: Josh Paetzel , 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> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020713222745.00281f72.steve@sohara.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 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 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