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At 03:00 PM 12/22/2006, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>--On December 22, 2006 8:51:43 AM -0700 Thomas Kindig 
><tkindig@wsfcu.org> wrote:

<snip>

>I'm not clear on why you have PERC5/i with only one drive.  Is the 
>drive partitioned and set up with RAID1?

I was thinking I might avoid proprietary controller problems by 
specifying a PE 1950 system with no HW RAID. Second mistake was not 
studying the HW list myownself. I got the same controller, no RAID, 
and now I learn that many shops are running FreeBSD fine on this 
controller with multiple drives and RAID.

I am hoping to remedy the situation by ordering a second drive and 
enabling, setting up RAID0.


'Hope this helps,
Thomas
WSFCU Help Desk
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