From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 2 13:25:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B19616A422 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:25:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE0043D53 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:25:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp218-158.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.218.158]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k32DPDkt099860 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:55:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:54:57 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> <200604021233.20917.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1212906.IqzCPXGKqY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604022255.03855.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Matthias Andree Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:25:22 -0000 --nextPart1212906.IqzCPXGKqY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1212906.IqzCPXGKqY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEL9Cv5ZPcIHs/zowRAlukAKCr7lrw2xNdNXUdGrlqlonm5G+6EACfTU92 QKG/w+V8AaRNOSz3b9T50Iw= =7G6J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1212906.IqzCPXGKqY--