From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 10:06:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE61D37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spxgate.servplex.com (ip66-105-58-82.z58-105-66.customer.algx.net [66.105.58.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1DE43FBD for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:06:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@servplex.com) Received: from peter.servplex.com ([192.168.0.10]) by spxgate.servplex.com (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3HHHoxj022704; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:17:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from peter@servplex.com) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030417120346.01b34d98@mail.servplex.com> X-Sender: peter@mail.servplex.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:08:23 -0500 To: Karl Pielorz From: Peter Elsner In-Reply-To: <12537337.1050599767@cat> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise RAID card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:06:15 -0000 I don't know about the SX6000, but I have one on a motherboard (can't recall what model), I think the Promise TX2000, that works fine. the GENERIC kernel recognized it and configured it for a RAID 1 (striping 2-80 gigs for a total of 160 gigs)... It boots just fine off of that one. Peter At 05:16 PM 4/17/2003 +0100, you wrote: >--On 17 April 2003 11:53 -0400 Chris McGee wrote: > >> >>Has anyone successfully used the Promise SX6000 card with FreeBSD 4.7? If >>so, what kind of configuration are you using? > >Bah, and as someone's just reminded me - you can't boot FreeBSD off it >without building a bespoke boot floppy, as it's not in the generic kernel >AFAIK... > >-Kp >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elsner Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone (425) 988-8061 - eFax I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?" -- Mike Godwin Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it. If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know, pretend you don't know me. Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE.