Raid problems

Søren Schmidt sos at DeepCore.dk
Tue Sep 21 06:30:04 PDT 2004


DB wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-Beta5 on a friend's server. He has a promise
> fasttracks SX4000 raid controller (raid level 5), but when booting freebsd we
> get a list of all the 4 disks. Is that right? (haven't tried installing freebsd
> on a raid computer). I've tried install freebsd on one of the disks, but when I
> restart the computer, it says it can't find /boot/kernel?
> 
> A fast reply or a link to a howto would be much appreciated.

As stated several times on the lists and cvs/status logs, the SX4000 is 
only supported as RAID0 and RAID1, *not* in RAID5 mode.

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-Søren




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