Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:50:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@mail.allcaps.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atacontrol metadata storage Message-ID: <20020826115002.P60837-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20020825231202.L44977-100000@mail.allcaps.org>
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On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: > How and where is atacontrol storing its metadata for the RAID > configurations? Its a format internal to the Promise ATA RAID controllers. I believe they place it in the protected area of the disk reserved for such things. > Atacontrol RAID configuration data seems to persist even across reboots > and even seems to allow RAID-based root partitions. This also has the > unfortunate effect of scrambling your disk drive if the RAID configration > fails, but that's a different problem. well it would sort of suck if it got lost on reboots :) Root RAID works since the RAIDing is done in hardware. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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