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Gigabit Ethernet +Striped RAID = ?

68kMLA PowerPC 2 posts Mar 21, 2009 to Mar 27, 2009

#1 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 - 22:35 68kMLA

Can a PowerMac G4 boot from Striped RAID?

So far both 10.2 or 10.4 won't do it.

Jag boots to a KP, and Tiger goes to an Open Firmware problem.

It says

Code:

DEFAULT CATCH!, code=300 at        %SRR0:     ff80b5f8      %SRR1:      0000b030

#2 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 - 01:23 68kMLA

It's striped using Apple's drivers?

I think the G5 was the first to support booting with Apple's RAID drivers. Some forum posts indicated MDD may also support this. Xserve definitely supports this.

I used a RAID 0 on my G5 for years, but switched to non-RAID when I upgraded to Leopard. It's not any slower, I don't have that much data (I'm only using 38 GB out of 232 GB), and I changed the other drive to a Time Machine drive, which is a lot safer.