sata stripe & dual boot

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Wed Oct 15 08:53:43 PDT 2003


On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Putinas wrote:

> Yes this what I tried , just a question shouldn't it be good idea to add
> ability use atacontrol from sysinstall ? ( lets say if I have two normal
> disks ad0 and ad2 and I want to use them in stripe configuration ? )
> without downloading fixit cd image that not possible, because on fixit
> floppy there is no atacontrol...

Well, you have an (apparently) unsupported configuration, otherwise you
could just add the stripe details from the controller's BIOS.

Space is already short on the boot floppies, putting in atacontrol would
involve jettisoning something else, usually device drivers.

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