From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 15:07:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8CA16A469 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:07:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1822E13C455 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:07:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l4OF4UrG081973; Thu, 24 May 2007 10:04:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070524100315.023efae0@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:04:21 -0500 To: kalin@el.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <61733.74.64.6.149.1180002606.squirrel@mail.el.net> References: <54316.74.2.36.140.1179892303.squirrel@mail.el.net> <61733.74.64.6.149.1180002606.squirrel@mail.el.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: raid or not raid X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:07:27 -0000 At 05:30 AM 5/24/2007, kalin mintchev wrote: >so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? >wrong list? > > > hi all.. > > > > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has > > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of > > slices. > > under devices there is another name - ad6 - but it's not mounted anywhere. > > the one i see both in df and the fstab is ad4 with one big slice and > > different partitions.... > > > > they insist there are 2 raided discs in tha machine. the os is 5.4 and i > > think at that point the raid drivers were still considered 'experimental'. > > > > it makes sense to me that if i don't see a second drive in the fstab there > > isn;t any mounting which means that there is no raid going on... > > > > is there any other way i can make sure if raid is actually on? > > would there will be any logs somewhere? > > the machine has been up for about 2 years and the dmesg is long gone... > > > > thanks..... > > > > It is likely a hardware raid setup in the hardware BEFORE FreeBSD was installed. In this type of setup the RAID array just looks like a regular hard disk to the OS. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.