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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>

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> 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

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