Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:24:29 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: kalin@el.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raid or not raid Message-ID: <d7195cff0705240824m14415318vbf6d888da7d7f2bd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070524100315.023efae0@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <54316.74.2.36.140.1179892303.squirrel@mail.el.net> <61733.74.64.6.149.1180002606.squirrel@mail.el.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20070524100315.023efae0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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On 24/05/07, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote: > 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. > Now I'm curious: are there RAID controllers that FreeBSD just sees as a [S]ATA controller with a [S]ATA disk attached? -- --
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