On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:18:42PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > RAID implementations (and most of the cheaper add-on RAID cards.) RAID that > > is supported in the BIOS have one advantage over other software > > implementations, and that is that you can boot from all supported RAID > > configurations, which is not always the case otherwise. > > always - if you use software RAID (gmirror) properly.
gmirror handles only RAID-1 if I am not mistaken. That is the exception where you can boot from a RAID array even the BIOS does not know about it. (But I would worry about what would happen if you were trying to boot from a degraded RAID-1 array. What happens if the BIOS tries to boot the wrong disk?) For a RAID-0, RAID-5, or RAID-10 array on the other hand, I think it is not possible to boot from them unless you have a BIOS which understands the array format. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
