problems with RAID0 and Intel/SE7501WV2/Promise

[Derkjan de Haan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug White" <dwhite at gumbysoft.com>
To: "Danny Braniss" <danny at cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>; "Soren Schmidt" <sos at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: problems with RAID0 and Intel/SE7501WV2/Promise


> OK, so you used the ATA controller's menu to construct the RAID array,
> then used sysinstall to slice the ensuing volume. Hm.  It appears that
> writes to sector 0 are disallowed.  Can you try installing without the
> array defined, to make sure the disks are writable otherwise?

Can this be some kind of virus protection (against boot sector viruses)
setting in the system bios ? Some systems have this, and activate it when
doing a 'load setup defaults'. Don't know if this applies to RAID arrays
though.


regards,

Derkjan