---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orestis Papakonstantinou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 16, 2005 1:11 PM Subject: Re: VIA RAID controller problem To: Marcin Simonides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The problem in my situation is that I am using a laptop. That means that whether I use RAID 0/1 or just JBOD is the same thing because everything passes through that RAID controller. It is completely embedded to the system. My BIOS does not even know that I am using RAID or if it does, it hasn't got any configuration settings, so that FreeBSD could "look" through the BIOS. Things get even more complicated if you consider that my laptop hasn't got a floppy drive. Because even the existing VIA RAID drivers for Linux are released as an iso for a floppy to be booted from the kernel. So on a second thought I really cant use FreeBSD on that laptop unless these drivers are supported in a future release version (embedded to the kernel on boot-time). So if any FreeBSD developers are reading this, I would be grateful if they could embed this RAID controller driver in a future release. Thanks for replying. On 11/16/05, Marcin Simonides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Orestis Papakonstantinou wrote: > > > I recently purchased a laptop (Amilo M3438G) that uses VIA's VT6421 RAID > > controller. I have problem installing FreeBSD (6.0) on that laptop > because > [...] > > compatibility layer after the install). Has anyone with similar hardware > > > found a solution? Thanks for your time! > > I'm using a similar VIA VT6420 with FreeBSD 6.0 though the system is > installed on a single IDE disk and only uses VIA's RAID for /usr. > > I've had problems with RAID0 (I'm going to post more information soon, I > need to make a few tests), but I think RAID1 should work fine (I haven't > tried). > -- > Marcin Simonides > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
