From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 10: 1:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www-dc-14.digiserve.com (unknown [151.196.211.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69EDD37B479 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:01:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from coach (w019.z064001087.bos-ma.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.87.19]) by www-dc-14.digiserve.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA01725 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:03:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200011211803.NAA01725@www-dc-14.digiserve.com> Reply-To: From: "Colin O'Brien" To: Subject: RE: Bootable RAID Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:02:31 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <00112016591601.03114@marbsd.tninet.se> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to Mark (and others who replied) for threading me correctly through the FreeBSD web-site and to Mike Smith for this very clear answer... On Monday 20 November 20 2000 12:41, Mike Smith write > All of the supported controllers can be installed to and booted from on > x86. See the Alpha notes for Alpha systems. On Monday 20 November 2000 08:59, Mark Rowlands wrote > On Monday 20 November 2000 17:40, Colin O'Brien wrote: > > I notice that the recent iterations of FreeBSD (4.1.1, 4.2 RC1) include > > support for newer (read, available and affordable, plus Ultra 160 and > > therefore consistent with hard drives that are available) RAID controllers > > such as Adaptec 2100S, DPT SmartRaid VI and Mylex AcceleRAID 170. > > > > I cannot find any mention if you can boot from these controllers? > > > > If this is not supported, is this a case of 'not yet', or is there some > > technical reasons why they will never be able to support booting in > > FreeBSD? > > > > Thanks in advance for your help > > Colin > > > > > > > > a qualified yes (my acceleraid 250 works) > > and may I point you towards > > http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/index.html > > for a more learned viewpoint > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message