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Date:      Sun, 04 Jul 2004 10:17:08 +0300
From:      Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        "Derkjan de Haan" <derkjan@haanjdj.demon.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with RAID0 and Intel/SE7501WV2/Promise 
Message-ID:  <20040704071709.5484043D1F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 4 Jul 2004 08:46:38 %2B0200 .

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug White" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
> To: "Danny Braniss" <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; "Soren Schmidt" <sos@FreeBSD.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 4:45 AM
> Subject: Re: problems with RAID0 and Intel/SE7501WV2/Promise
> 
> 
> > OK, so you used the ATA controller's menu to construct the RAID array,
> > then used sysinstall to slice the ensuing volume. Hm.  It appears that
> > writes to sector 0 are disallowed.  Can you try installing without the
> > array defined, to make sure the disks are writable otherwise?
> 
> Can this be some kind of virus protection (against boot sector viruses)
> setting in the system bios ? Some systems have this, and activate it when
> doing a 'load setup defaults'. Don't know if this applies to RAID arrays
> though.
> 

i doubt it, since the program/kernel had INHO no reason to write there in the
first place.

danny




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