From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 22:27: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dell.dannyland.org (dell.dannyland.org [64.81.36.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B03DC37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: by dell.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B16B85C59; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:28:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:28:43 -0700 From: dannyman To: EX 279 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD sees 3 drives Message-ID: <20010802222843.D28622@toldme.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ex279@hotmail.com on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:11:12PM -0500 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:11:12PM -0500, EX 279 wrote: > I'm installing FreeBSD 4.3 onto my server, but when I get to the option on > partitioning the drives, it sees three drives. I'm using a Adaptec > ARO-1130U2 card which is supported by 4.3, however, FreeBSD sees 3 drives > instead of 1. Is this normal when using a RAID5? I created the array with > the Adaptec software. Is there someway to create a RAID in FreeBSD? Did you configure three logical drives on your RAID? Does the Adaptec present the system with a SCSI device, or does it require driver support? For software RAID, check out vinum. -danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message