problems with RAID0 and Intel/SE7501WV2/Promise
Danny Braniss
danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Sun Jul 4 00:17:09 PDT 2004
>
> ----- 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.
>
i doubt it, since the program/kernel had INHO no reason to write there in the
first place.
danny
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