From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 8 11:19:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3468D37B419 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:19:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id fA8JJFu19747; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:19:15 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:19:15 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Erin Fortenberry Cc: "'Thomas Coppens'" , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a RAID0 array with onboard RAID Message-ID: <20011108111915.A18589@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:13:37AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:13:37AM -0800, Erin Fortenberry wrote: > This is because FreeBSD does not (as far as I know) support RAID on the > promise cards/chips. >=20 > If this has changed I'd really like to know. It is supposed to be supported (that's what the ar0 device is) though it's a truly pointless feature. Even in Windows it doesn't even manage to allow you to boot reliably in the face of drive failure because the BIOS level support fails in many cases. A friend of mine had both disks corrupted when one of them was pulled to test the failure recovery. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE76tqyXY6L6fI4GtQRArZFAJ0drBF65IhYnk3kIqqHORSnjlerBwCgrUn5 P8c9J+mUdXwjWA8M3sIvLPw= =9nAF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message