From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 8 11:45:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from intergate.sdccd.cc.ca.us (intergate.sdccd.cc.ca.us [209.129.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6600E37B418 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:45:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntxdistrict.sdccd.cc.ca.us (ntxdistrict.sdccd.cc.ca.us [10.1.100.1]) by intergate.sdccd.cc.ca.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA21375; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:37:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by ntxdistrict.sdccd.cc.ca.us with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.89) id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:46:05 -0800 Message-ID: From: Erin Fortenberry To: "'Brooks Davis'" Cc: "'Thomas Coppens'" , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD on a RAID0 array with onboard RAID Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:45:49 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.89) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 > 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