SATA RAID on Alpha 164XL??

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Wed Apr 14 06:01:17 PDT 2004


On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:36:09PM -0700, John Wheez wrote:
> 
> Anyone has success with putting a SATA raid in to their Alpha 164LX 
> running freebsd?
> 
> I tried to setup and ide raid using two promise ATA 133 cards and i got 
> nothing but drive CRC errors under linux and freebsd...but teh same 
> hardware worked fine in my x86 box. I even had specially shielded ata 
> cables.
> 
> Thanks for any comments you your ATA-raid or SATA raid experiences with 
> Alpha.

I doubt that anyone ever used, but principaly it should work.
If it doesn't for you then you should give more details.
Exact error and boot messages are a good start.
Currently we don't even know the FreeBSD version you have tried.

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