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Date:      Sun, 2 Jul 2000 15:35:04 -0600 
From:      "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <gene_dinkey@hp.com>
To:        "'Shawn Ramsey'" <shawn@megadeth.org>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: RAID Controllers
Message-ID:  <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C5313DD@xfc04.fc.hp.com>

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If your running hardware RAID the array each logical volume on the array is
presented to both the BIOS and the OS as being a single disk.  The RAID
controller handles addressing to the physical disks.  

After hardware RAID is set up (through the controllers firmware) you should
be able to go about installing the operating system normaly, asuming you
have a supported chipset.  You would need to check the hardware
compatibility list at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hw.html

Enjoy

Gene

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shawn Ramsey [mailto:shawn@megadeth.org]
>Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 3:22 PM
>To: questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: RAID Controllers
>
>
>Are there any RAID controllers that FreeBSD 3.4 or 4.0 is capable of 
>booting off of? If not, would it be possible to put the entire system 
>(including / ) on the RAID, and say boot from a floppy?
>
>
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