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Subject: Re: nVidia RAID + FreeBSD 6.0
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Vulpes Velox wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:46:52 +1030
> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am looking at getting a motherboard based on nForce 3 or 4, and I
>>am wondering if the RAID will be usable?
>>
>>I don't mind if I have to use the BIOS to setup/rebuild the array,
>>but I don't want to buy a system I can't use the RIAD for at all.
>>
>>I note from ata-raid.c that there is a meta-data read routine, but
>>no write one - I think this means I can use it after it's been
>>defined, but not rebuilt or create an array in the first place.
> 
> 
> I would also check what the chipset used for it is. 

[snip]

Lets not mix things up here, this is about the nForce chipsets.
The nForce RAID BIOS has problems with choosing the right drive to build
from when a mirror fails, this will need a BIOS update to get fixed.

-Søren