Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:04:57 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John David Duncan <jdd@greatschools.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex RAID question Message-ID: <200108260105.f7Q14vn22027@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:03:23 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10108241556530.21008-100000@great4.greatschools.net>
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> The mly(4) manual page states:
>
> Logical devices (array drives) attached to the controller are presented
> to the SCSI subsystem as though they were direct-access devices on a
> virtual SCSI bus. Physical devices which are not claimed by a logical
> device are presented on SCSI channels which match the physical channels
> on the controller.
>
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> Does this mean that I can attach a SCSI drive to the RAID controller,
> but not configure it as part of an array, and then access it as a normal
> drive? If so, can I also boot from it?
The manpage is slightly out of sync with the way the driver works these
days; the passthrough approach is disabled by default.
You would not be able to boot from such a drive, no. You could configure
it as a JBOD with the array config utility, though.
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