Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:02:52 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia RAID + FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <20060129130252.GB1731@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <200601291646.54452.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200601291646.54452.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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--bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:46:52PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I am looking at getting a motherboard based on nForce 3 or 4, and I am=20 > wondering if the RAID will be usable? >=20 > I don't mind if I have to use the BIOS to setup/rebuild the array, but I = don't=20 > want to buy a system I can't use the RIAD for at all. >=20 > I note from ata-raid.c that there is a meta-data read routine, but no wri= te=20 > one - I think this means I can use it after it's been defined, but not=20 > rebuilt or create an array in the first place. >=20 Correct. The implications of metadata read/write support and a list of supported metadata format can also be found in ataraid(4). Be aware though that there have been reports on the lists of data loss in connection with NVIDIA RAIDs. This seems to also happen on other operating systems. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD3Lz7bHYXjKDtmC0RAgZ4AJ98GsjBjW6kxUQq9vEQoXaIu3xV9gCggNbS AxwSgw9lVmdGu5gK2F7m/C0= =WTi8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE--
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