Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:06:23 -0500 From: Derek Giromini <giromide@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Mirroring Disks with Intel ICH5-R SATA 82081ER Message-ID: <d78392d050526110654b85f00@mail.gmail.com>
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Greetings-- I preface this with an admission this is my first ever attempt to successfully install FreeBSD. I am attempting to install 5.4 on a 1U with an Intel ICH5-R SATA RAID controller for the purpose of running mirrored disks. I've dug up a recent exchange about RAID-1 (mirror): > Should work just fine with the integrated ICH5R if you CVSUP to=20 > -CURRENT. sos@ has done major work to the ata code recently and I have=20 > many of this exact machine up and running right now. I had to: >=20 > Enable SATA RAID in the BIOS but define no raid > Install FreeBSD on ad4 (or the first disk) > CVSUP to current and rebuild kernel > edit your fstab and change all the ad4 (or whatever disk you installed=20 > on) entries to ar0 > go into RAID BIOS and create a RAID from the first drive >=20 > When it asks you how to create the array, choose Build and it'll copy=20 > your first drive to the second drive, creating a mirror. >=20 > reboot your machine and it should 'just work' > -Sam I couldn't determine which version of FreeBSD was discussed, so I just modified the fstab and RAID, but I could never get the disk to boot. I reinstalled, then cvsup all CURRENT code only to break the kernel rebuild as the headers were out of whack. Is there some way a could rebuild the kernel without taking everything CURRENT since 5.4? Perhaps I am not getting the code correctly or am not building the kernel correctly. I am following the documentation online. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers --Derek
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