From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 13 22:15:37 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 A64A337B400; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 22:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.wanadoo.nl (smtp3.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 223B143E88; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 22:15:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (i2227.vwr.wanadoo.nl [194.134.216.188]) by smtp3.wanadoo.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id E4DD01B4A9; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 07:15:29 +0200 (MEST) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 07:15:24 +0200 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: friar_josh@webwarrior.net, jim@nasby.net, laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-Id: <20020714071524.1587f419.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20020714004247.GB16279@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org> <20020713032546.GD61459@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020713075109.06ecf02f.steve@sohara.org> <20020713100218.B284@twincat.vladsempire.net> <20020713222745.00281f72.steve@sohara.org> <20020714004247.GB16279@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:12:47 +0930 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: G> On Saturday, 13 July 2002 at 22:27:45 +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: G> > It seems to be about RAID on standard non-raid controllers to my G> > poor eye. It does not mention that they will not work, only that there G> > are boot restrictions. G> G> I've been reading the atacontrol man page. It's not very clear, but G> you could be right. If so, it's a well-kept secret. There also G> appears to be no way to recover such a RAID 1 partition. I've found confirmation - There was a thread in -stable around the 18th of June (subject the new ATA driver vs. vinum) in which Bob Wilcox and Remo Lacho both mentioned running RAID arrays on non RAID controllers using the support in the ATA driver. Having RAID1 without recovery seems less than ideal though. -- 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