Jakub Miziolek wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Scott Long wrote:
>>Has anybody used HostRAID support in Adaptec 29320 and FreeBSD? I was
>>trying to install 4.7-RELEASE, but it detected only controller - not RAID1
>>mirror. And of course it complains there are no disks in machine. DOS can
>>see that array. Array is supported by controller BIOS - not any
>>external win drivers/utility.
>
>The RAIDframe project in FreeBSD 5.0 was intended to support Adaptec
>HostRAID. Unfortunately, priorities have changed and that effort has
>stalled indefinitely. You are welcome to contact Adaptec through
>official channels and voice your concern.
Just to make Adaptec aware there is such demand from users?
Yes. Please.
I can understand now I can only make software RAID emulation.
True, the 'secret sauce' of HostRAID is that the BIOS understands RAID 0, 1, and 10, so you can boot off of it. For those that only need software RAID and those that keep their boot drive separate from their main arrays, this is a cool feature. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
