From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 7: 3: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E59337B401 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 07:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jud@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [63.214.213.14] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.9 $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Mon, 27 May 2002 08:02:49 -0600 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 10:03:10 -0400 From: Jud To: "Boyan Nedkov" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: onboard RAID controller (Asus A7V333) Message-Id: <20020527100310.02604ddd.jud@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <001e01c2057f$7eb19d30$ab01a8c0@wagner> References: <001e01c2057f$7eb19d30$ab01a8c0@wagner> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mon, 27 May 2002 15:07:41 +0200 "Boyan Nedkov" wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.5 on a brain new hardware system > based on Asus A7V333 motherboard (VIA VT8233A chipset, supporting > UltraDMA 133/100/66/33), configured for using two equal 60GB hard > disks as a RAID-0 disk storage. I've tested the system with WinXP > and it works fine. But trying to installing FreeBSD I get an error > message "No disk found ..." > I checked the hardware documentation and found out that the VIA > VT8233A chipset is not supported jet, but perhaps somebody knows a > workaround for such problem ??? If that chipset isn't supported yet, someone forgot to tell my computer, which has the ASUS A7V333 mainboard with two 40GB hard drives in RAID-0 configuration. I installed 4.5-RELEASE on this system, which worked fine, and have been following -STABLE regularly with cvsup, most recently last night. The array is seen as ar0 with two subdisks, ad2 and ad4. This is all done automagically (thanks to Soeren Schmidt, I assume). If WinXP sees your RAID-0 array as one disk, it sounds like you have the Promise BIOS installed - correct? I really can't think what else could be causing the problem, so someone smarter than I am will have to help find the solution. For whatever help it is, though, FreeBSD does work with your mainboard. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message