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Date:      Sun, 4 Jul 2004 08:46:38 +0200
From:      "Derkjan de Haan" <derkjan@haanjdj.demon.nl>
To:        "Doug White" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, "Danny Braniss" <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        Soren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: problems with RAID0 and Intel/SE7501WV2/Promise 
Message-ID:  <001401c46192$a8762110$0102a8c0@bogomip>
References:  <20040703101650.A85C672DB5@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040703194328.D95975@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug White" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To: "Danny Braniss" <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; "Soren Schmidt" <sos@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: problems with RAID0 and Intel/SE7501WV2/Promise


> OK, so you used the ATA controller's menu to construct the RAID array,
> then used sysinstall to slice the ensuing volume. Hm.  It appears that
> writes to sector 0 are disallowed.  Can you try installing without the
> array defined, to make sure the disks are writable otherwise?

Can this be some kind of virus protection (against boot sector viruses)
setting in the system bios ? Some systems have this, and activate it when
doing a 'load setup defaults'. Don't know if this applies to RAID arrays
though.


regards,

Derkjan




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