Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

Thomas D. Dean tomdean at speakeasy.org
Tue Jul 19 18:31:15 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:26 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Hi--
> 
> On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
> > sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives.  ad4(600G), ad6(600G),
> > ar0(RAID0)
> > 
> > I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'.
> > 
> > Which disk do I select for installation?
> 
> ar0 is the RAID-0 volume.  However, I would advise against using Intel's Matrix pseudo-RAID for a boot volume, 

Why?

I searched and did not find a reason to not use it.  Just a few
"recommend against it" without reasons.

tomdean



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