From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Nov 9 9:14:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6631737B41D for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:14:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id fA9HEZu15858; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:14:35 -0800 Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:14:35 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Thomas Coppens Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, ravi@cow.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a RAID0 array with onboard RAID Message-ID: <20011109091435.B3937@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20011108183419.E97368@happy.cow.org> <003001c1693a$7f7b4810$0202a8c0@alfa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003001c1693a$7f7b4810$0202a8c0@alfa>; from thomas.coppens@advalvas.be on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:20:45PM +0100 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 --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:20:45PM +0100, Thomas Coppens wrote: > Alright, I understand the RAID feature of the Promise chip isn't very > well supported by FreeBSD. However, one thing I don't understand... some > people say the card is unreliable, but I have it running perfectly on a > Windows platform? Do you mean it's unreliable in general or when used > with BSD? The report of unreliability I know of personaly is from a Windows system. There appear to be a number of problems including refusal to boot if the wrong disk dies, and extreme fragility in the remirroring state if you use RAID 1. If you ignore the RAID feature, it's a fine ata controler. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE77A77XY6L6fI4GtQRAstzAJ0TUK11DBdE+uRGWe0khQvNaE5/zwCgxACx dtyz2rL9kMib92SUC+lrXsI= =dPc1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message