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On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
> Why not use 3BM (3Ware BIOS Manager) to setup the RAID. Create the
> RAID with it, specify a boot volume, turn off autocarving, so it
> creates two units (one smaller boot volume, and all the rest it a
> large unit). Setp the smaller unit like normal (fdisk, newfs, etc)
> and setup the larger unit with GPT.

That's how I set up the RAID.  If there is an option to specify  
smaller volumes that isn't the auto carving option, then it is very  
well hidden.  There's really only one page it could be on, and it  
isn't there.

-- 
Jo Rhett
senior geek
Silicon Valley Colocation