problems with RAID0 and Intel/SE7501WV2/Promise

[Doug White]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Derkjan de Haan wrote:

> > 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.

FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS to do writes, so unless the BIOS knows how to
reprogram the disk, that wouldn't have any effect.

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