Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 11:35:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Derkjan de Haan <derkjan@haanjdj.demon.nl> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: problems with RAID0 and Intel/SE7501WV2/Promise Message-ID: <20040705113524.O14616@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <001401c46192$a8762110$0102a8c0@bogomip> References: <20040703101650.A85C672DB5@carver.gumbysoft.com> <001401c46192$a8762110$0102a8c0@bogomip>
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On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Derkjan de Haan wrote: > > OK, so you used the ATA controller's menu to construct the RAID array, > > then used sysinstall to slice the ensuing volume. Hm. It appears that > > writes to sector 0 are disallowed. Can you try installing without the > > array defined, to make sure the disks are writable otherwise? > > Can this be some kind of virus protection (against boot sector viruses) > setting in the system bios ? Some systems have this, and activate it when > doing a 'load setup defaults'. Don't know if this applies to RAID arrays > though. FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS to do writes, so unless the BIOS knows how to reprogram the disk, that wouldn't have any effect. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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