From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 8 16:18:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (machine-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 813401508F for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 44244 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Oct 1999 23:18:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Oct 1999 23:18:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:18:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime Kikpole To: Edward Kovarski Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from RAID5 array? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <871zb7teve.fsf@nyctereutes.digitalized.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Oct 1999, Edward Kovarski wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, DPT controllers are PCI-to-RAID controllers > which generally do not allow booting from the RAID controllers as they > are software driven. They're hardware based. Do you know of any other RAID cards that work in FreeBSD? > If booting from the RAID subsystem is essential then I would recommend an > external RAID controller. They are self-sufficient and do not require any > drivers. They mask the entire RAID array as a very large SCSI drive which > then in turns works with any SCSI controller. Where could I find such a thing? Thanks, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message