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Date:      Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:30:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Ruben Bloemgarten <ruben@bloemgarten.demon.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: identifying single drives on hardware RAID0
Message-ID:  <20040618102917.V36931@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1BbI87-000Ec4-00@post-20.mail.nl.demon.net>
References:  <E1BbI87-000Ec4-00@post-20.mail.nl.demon.net>

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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ruben Bloemgarten wrote:

> Probably a dumb question here : but I want to identify a specific drive in
> RAID0 config, but only the logical drive is reported dmesg. Is this even
> possible ? Also, if this post is misdirected, my bad.

What raid hardware?

In general, with hardware RAID (PCI cards and the like), the component
physical disks of a logical array are hidden from the OS to keep you from
accessing them directly and destroying the array, and to simplify the
presentation of the array to the OS.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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