Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:54:30 +0100 From: "Thomas Coppens" <thomas.coppens@advalvas.be> To: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD on a RAID0 array with onboard RAID Message-ID: <004a01c1688f$314a00b0$0202a8c0@alfa> In-Reply-To: <20011108111915.A18589@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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> It is supposed to be supported (that's what the ar0 device is) though > it's a truly pointless feature. Even in Windows it doesn't even manage > to allow you to boot reliably in the face of drive failure because the > BIOS level support fails in many cases. A friend of mine had both disks > corrupted when one of them was pulled to test the failure recovery. Data reliability isn't the biggest issue here, speed is. This Promise chip is a cheap solution and critical files are stored on a server (backup). Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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