From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 5 4:38:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344F537B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 04:38:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta01.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta01.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AAE43EDA for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 04:38:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from pootah ([63.60.241.125]) by mta01.mail.mel.aone.net.au with SMTP id <20021205123900.ENGW20706.mta01.mail.mel.aone.net.au@pootah>; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:39:00 +1100 Message-ID: <000b01c29c5a$eaf35340$3164a8c0@pootah> From: "Rob B" To: "Oliver Lehmann" , "Sten" Cc: References: <20021205095031.38939cbf.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20021205125159.6aeac84c.lehmann@ans-netz.de> Subject: Re: bootable RAID Controllers Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:36:20 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver Lehmann" To: "Sten" Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:51 PM Subject: Re: bootable RAID Controllers > Sten wrote: > > > Wether a raid controller is bootable depends on the srm support. > > Thats what i ask about.. I have no clue which RAID controllers my srm > knowns. Actually I'm using the newest SRM which is available for this > machine (v5.8). > > > Once FreeBSD is booted most raid controllers will work. > And how to configure the raid? Is it possible to move inside these > Configuration Utilityat boottime to configure the RAID? Otherwise how > should i use such a controller w/o the ability to configure the drives > within the controller configuration utility... The configuration of the card is done from within srm. > > Booting from ide/floppy is usally the easiest way. > Actually the machine boots from a Tekram DC 390U2W (SYM-895) Controller. > But i would like to have the whole Sysmtem on a RAID-5 Host drive. Some Mylex DAC-960 cards are supported as boot devices, but as to how to know what you srm supports, that's a bit of a mystery. srm isn't documented very well at all - even inside DEC/Compaq/HP. Apart from asking here, check the archives of some of the Alpha Linux mailing lists, Redhat and Debian would be the best bets. Some current- & ex-Alpha engineers are on those lists cheers, Rob -- "Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty." - Albert Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message