Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:45:49 -0800 From: Erin Fortenberry <efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us> To: "'Brooks Davis'" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: "'Thomas Coppens'" <thomas.coppens@advalvas.be>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD on a RAID0 array with onboard RAID Message-ID: <BBDEEDD2EB67D311A0240008C74B93453A8F61@ntxmidcity.sdccd.cc.ca.us>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 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. > > > > 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. The olny referance to the "ar0" device I can find was in LINT. Here it is; # ar: Arnet SYNC/570i hdlc sync 2/4 port V.35/X.21 serial driver (requires sppp) I see nothing about RAID and Promise cards anywhere. Erin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?BBDEEDD2EB67D311A0240008C74B93453A8F61>