From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 25 18: 0: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF9E37B401 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 17:59:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7Q14vn22027; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:05:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108260105.f7Q14vn22027@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John David Duncan Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex RAID question In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:03:23 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:04:57 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 > > The mly(4) manual page states: > > Logical devices (array drives) attached to the controller are presented > to the SCSI subsystem as though they were direct-access devices on a > virtual SCSI bus. Physical devices which are not claimed by a logical > device are presented on SCSI channels which match the physical channels > on the controller. > > > Does this mean that I can attach a SCSI drive to the RAID controller, > but not configure it as part of an array, and then access it as a normal > drive? If so, can I also boot from it? The manpage is slightly out of sync with the way the driver works these days; the passthrough approach is disabled by default. You would not be able to boot from such a drive, no. You could configure it as a JBOD with the array config utility, though. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message