On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:28:29PM -0800, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: > >On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote: > > > >>>>>Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on > >>>>>big fiber channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid > >>>>>controllers. > >>>>I'd be very surprised if you can't. You can certainly do it > >>>>with Areca (arcmsr(4)), HP (ciss(4)), IBM ServeRAID (ips(4)), > >>>>although the details vary. > >> > >>On Jan 11, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: > >>>I can confirm 3Ware controllers also work that way. > >> > >>Please enlighten me. I see no such options in the BIOS menu. > > > >I've done it in 3DM2, but look at pages 23+24 (printed page > >numbers) here and the stuff regarding setting up a seperate boot > >volume: > > > >http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/3ware9590SEUsrGuide.pdf > > Those are CLI functions. Which means you have to boot to run the > CLI, so cart->horse. > > Sorry for being terse, but I have to solve the boot problem which is > what started this conversation.
Why not use 3BM (3Ware BIOS Manager) to setup the RAID. Create the RAID with it, specify a boot volume, turn off autocarving, so it creates two units (one smaller boot volume, and all the rest it a large unit). Setp the smaller unit like normal (fdisk, newfs, etc) and setup the larger unit with GPT. Using 3BM avoids the cart->horse issue with 3DM2/CLI. -- I saw Elvis! He sat between me and BigFoot in the UFO! Mike Hall San Juan Island, WA System Admin - Rock Island Communications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Admin - riverside.org, ssdd.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
