Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:09:46 +0100 From: "Roger. O. Svenning" <roger@audioweb.no> To: Jonathan Reeder <jreeder@minutemenu.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead? Message-ID: <41C84ACA.9080407@audioweb.no> In-Reply-To: <NIECLIJFBLKHJMOALIKPOEGCCNAA.jreeder@minutemenu.com> References: <NIECLIJFBLKHJMOALIKPOEGCCNAA.jreeder@minutemenu.com>
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Jonathan Reeder wrote: >Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is >there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software >RAID instead of relying on the controller? > >I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer is greatly >appreciated. > AFAIK you cant use software RAID on your system drives as the system has to boot before software RAID can be loaded. Thus you would need a dedicated system drive which the system can boot from in order to load software raid on the other two disks. This is probably not what you want. Roger O. Svenning
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