Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:35:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> To: "Tom Glover" <tomg@egg.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise SX6000 controller Message-ID: <1620.24.71.128.221.1080804901.squirrel@mailtest.sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0403311729020.13223@enema.egg.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401160732440.63061@enema.egg.net><Pine.BSF.4.58.0402050804340.14155@enema.egg.net> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0403311729020.13223@enema.egg.net>
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> Before I go beat my head against the proverbial wall - again .... > Any tips on installing 5.2.1 using this controller? Any tricks to > making it bootable? In fact is it possible to make it bootable? Last time I looked at the Promise cards, they weren't actually hardware RAID cards. Instead, they were a hybrid software / hardware card that did most of the RAID work in the driver. IOW, you had to load a kernel, load a driver, then mount the drive array in order to get the RAID array accessible. This meant you couldn't put / (or at least /boot) onto the RAID array. There may be tricks to get around this but I didn't spend much time on it. I just returned the Promise cards and replaced them with 3Ware Escalade cards which do real hardware RAID and let you put / onto the RAID array. -- Freddie Cash fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca
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