New World ROM Macs do not support it as stated in one of the links I posted. You can keep saying "it works" but you don't say anything else. Yet you tell me I have to disprove you.
It doesn't work, I have posted links stating such as evidence that there simply isn't support for such things. Please counter with something better than "it works for me."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=582558
This link, which I posted before, states:
With the release of the iMac and later computers, Apple moved to a new Mac OS ROM architecture. This new architecture does not recognize multiple striped devices as a valid startup disk.
It has nothing to do with special cases or software or OS version. The New World ROM does not support booting from software RAIDs because it does not recognize startup disks with data striped across them.
On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 07:01 PM, mkauspe wrote:
Ok... I don't think I missed anything. I have RAID 0 on two 30GB hard drives. I set it up during the install with no OS installed at all, both were clean drives (no data). I dragged disk 1 over to the RAID setup then I dragged disk 2 over. Then I partitioned with one partition that came out to 57GB. I installed the OS on the RAID > volume.
"Note: Xserve, which originally shipped with Mac OS X Server 10.1.5, is an exception to this. Xserve may use a RAID volume as the startup disk. Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 is only available with and only supported on Xserve computers that originally included it. Users of Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 on Xserve should update to Mac OS X Server 10.2 or later."
I don't understand what you're getting at. I don't have an Xserve or the Server OS. I have 10.2 on a sawtooth and it works. I don't know what else to tell ya. It just works. I know that isn't hard evidence but I don't know how I can prove it to you.
The article stated "New World ROM Macs can't boot from striped RAIDs" the Xserve is not the focus it was an exception, the only exception, ie your Sawtooth is not an exception.
I was reading another thread you were in, you said over and over how you are a tech and others do not have your understanding. Please share your understanding and explain to me how a software RAID device can boot without having drivers for it loaded.
David
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