From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 21 13:25:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mg130-183.ricochet.net [204.179.130.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D34F937BBB3 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:25:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00822; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:28:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003212128.NAA00822@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: thyerm@camtech.net.au Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex Support In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:07:01 +1030." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:28:29 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Are there any particular preparation processes one should go through > when setting up a Mylex DAC960 RAID array ? > (if so give me a pointer to the docs) Documentation typically ships with the adapter. > Can I just purchase all the hardware, plug in the disks and boot the > FreeBSD-4 install floppies ? (for a system to be booting from the > array with no internal ATA devices) You'll need to configure the array first. > or Should I have an internal ATA hard disk with some evil OS on it > such as Lose 9X or NT so as to run any kind of Mylex DOS/Windows > preparation utilities ? Only for the very old adapters. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message