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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:18:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com>
To:        Edward Kovarski <edwardk@digitalized.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting from RAID5 array? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910081916430.44177-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>
In-Reply-To: <871zb7teve.fsf@nyctereutes.digitalized.com>

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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



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