Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 11:19:48 +0300 From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> To: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sil3112 controller Message-ID: <3F2B7424.4090805@he.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <200308020808.h7288IUT084015@spider.deepcore.dk> References: <200308020808.h7288IUT084015@spider.deepcore.dk>
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Soeren Schmidt wrote: >>So that drives could be assigned to a mirror / stripe set before installing without >>having to build the mirror on another machine first? >>(in this case the BIOS does not help) >> >> > >You cant boot from a stripe on a controller that doesn't have a BIOS >to do it. > > Sure, but I can boot off a mirror, which I actually do in a few cases. Most ATA RAID controllers seem to be targeted towards home-user and thus do not support unattended operation. I just can't create the mirror while installing. I just wish there would either be more functionality in the twe driver or somebody would come out with 8-12 port SATA controller. Looking at the issues for example the Adaptec SCSI RAIDs have, it seems SATA will take them over quite quickly. Pete > >
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