RAID on Tyan Tomcat K8E

Daniel Rock freebsd at deadcafe.de
Sat Feb 25 02:33:28 PST 2006


Matthew D. Fuller schrieb:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:51:36PM -0700 I heard the voice of
> Ken Gunderson, and lo! it spake thus:
>> gmirror will boot off the second drive no problem.
> 
> Well, gmirror never will, since it's not involved at that level  ;)
> 
> The BIOS may, but a lot of them don't.

All BIOSes I have seen in the past few years offer the option to select 
multiple boot devices with different priorities. Many BIOSes offer at least 
four different boot devices, some even eight.

By reading the source I have the feeling that ataraid is in some respects 
incomplete (e.g. degraded RAID 5 mode).


Daniel


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