From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 10 19:41:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADF437B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:41:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from toscano.org (ip68-100-184-64.nv.nv.cox.net [68.100.184.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D281143F85 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:41:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@toscano.org) Received: from bubba.toscano.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bubba.toscano.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2B3f8xH002267; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:41:08 -0500 Received: (from pete@localhost) by bubba.toscano.org (8.12.8/8.12.5/Submit) id h2B3f3bZ002265; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:41:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:41:03 -0500 From: Pete To: Soeren Schmidt Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible? Message-ID: <20030311034103.GC1912@bubba.toscano.org> Mail-Followup-To: Soeren Schmidt , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200303101030.h2AAUE9r095348@spider.deepcore.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200303101030.h2AAUE9r095348@spider.deepcore.dk> X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Søren Schmidt wrote: > No, thats not the case, the ATA driver has a built in RAID engine > to use with Promise and HighPoint controllers. The reason it is > like this is that it is nessesary to read the RAID config off the > disks in a vendor specific way, and neither of cdd/vinum could do > this when its was done. So, if I were to create the RAID-1 volume with atacontrol, I'm tied to using the Promise controller? Could I move the drives to a Highpoint-based controller or just a plain on-board ATA interface and still have the RAID volume accessible? If I want this kind of flexibility, should I move to Vinum? Thanks again for taking the time to clear all of this up. I really appreciate it. pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message