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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:54:30 +0100
From:      "Thomas Coppens" <thomas.coppens@advalvas.be>
To:        <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Subject:   RE: Installing FreeBSD on a RAID0 array with onboard RAID
Message-ID:  <004a01c1688f$314a00b0$0202a8c0@alfa>
In-Reply-To: <20011108111915.A18589@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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> It is supposed to be supported (that's what the ar0 device is) though
> it's a truly pointless feature.  Even in Windows it doesn't even
manage
> to allow you to boot reliably in the face of drive failure because the
> BIOS level support fails in many cases.  A friend of mine had both
disks
> corrupted when one of them was pulled to test the failure recovery.

Data reliability isn't the biggest issue here, speed is. This Promise
chip is a cheap solution and critical files are stored on a server
(backup).

Thomas



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