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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:54:57 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Subject:   Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?
Message-ID:  <200604022255.03855.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <m34q1cxuek.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
References:  <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> <200604021233.20917.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <m34q1cxuek.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>

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On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID=
1.
> > (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap)
>
> It's a matter of the BIOS:
> will it complain, or will it proceed to the next SATA disk?

Yes indeed.
It also depends on the failure mode of the disk.

Personally I think the price is worth paying :)
(Although for a home server you can get your hands on easily then software=
=20
RAID should not be a problem)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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