Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:52:25 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Grant Beckerleg <grant@vbc.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT's Storage Manager and FreeBSD Message-ID: <36CBFEF9.11FBBCD5@tdx.co.uk> References: <004301be5b1e$e3180020$0602cfc2@gromit.uk1.vbc.net>
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Grant Beckerleg wrote: > > Hello there, > Can anyone shed any light on the following > situation? > > I am in the process of experimenting with RAID and have built a > machine using a DPT 3334UW RAID controller and running FreeBSD3.0. > This DPT product comes with software, for building and managing RAID > array configurations, called Storage Manager. > > This software is not supplied with FreeBSD in mind and DPT's manual > suggests that a dos partition is used as the home of this software. > > We do not want FreeBSD3.0 running on top of dos. FreeBSD won't be 'running on top of DOS' - you'll just have a DOS partition on the system, for running the DPT tools from... If you boot the DOS partition you be running DOS, if you boot the FreeBSD system you'll be running FreeBSD (i.e. not even a hint of DOS :) > Has anyone had experience of this situation/software? Yes, we have a very similar setup here (different DPT controller). We have an 8Mb DOS formatted, bootable partition - then the rest of the disk is FreeBSD... On the 8Mb partition we have the DPT manager tools, and the EISA config setup for that machine. Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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