Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:54:57 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300? Message-ID: <200604022255.03855.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <m34q1cxuek.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> <200604021233.20917.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <m34q1cxuek.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
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--nextPart1212906.IqzCPXGKqY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote: > > You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID= 1. > > (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap) > > It's a matter of the BIOS: > will it complain, or will it proceed to the next SATA disk? Yes indeed. It also depends on the failure mode of the disk. Personally I think the price is worth paying :) (Although for a home server you can get your hands on easily then software= =20 RAID should not be a problem) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1212906.IqzCPXGKqY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEL9Cv5ZPcIHs/zowRAlukAKCr7lrw2xNdNXUdGrlqlonm5G+6EACfTU92 QKG/w+V8AaRNOSz3b9T50Iw= =7G6J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1212906.IqzCPXGKqY--
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