From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 18:31:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1191A1065670 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:31:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomdean@speakeasy.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DE88FC20 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:31:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28502 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2011 18:31:14 -0000 Received: from 24-113-112-30.wavecable.com (HELO [192.168.2.2]) (tomdean@[24.113.112.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Jul 2011 18:31:14 -0000 From: "Thomas D. Dean" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: References: <1311099631.2262.20.camel@asus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Home Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:31:13 -0700 Message-ID: <1311100273.2262.22.camel@asus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tomdean@speakeasy.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:31:15 -0000 On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:26 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G), > > ar0(RAID0) > > > > I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'. > > > > Which disk do I select for installation? > > ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I would advise against using Intel's Matrix pseudo-RAID for a boot volume, Why? I searched and did not find a reason to not use it. Just a few "recommend against it" without reasons. tomdean