Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:05:58 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on Hardware Raid Message-ID: <20161213160558.b4795383e34201ff8af1395b@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <3tdHnK1zRXzRRqQ@baobab.bilink.it> References: <3tdHnK1zRXzRRqQ@baobab.bilink.it>
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:40:04 +0100 Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> wrote: > > Hello to everybody! > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 10.3 (11.0 doesn't boot due to old EFI > buggy implementation) on a 2010 Intel Server Board S5400SF machine, > bearing an Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology II, with two arrays > of SATA hard disks. > > When I boot the installation DVD of the 10.3-RELEASE, it sees the > single disks instead of the arrays. It destroys the arrays if I let it > write to the disks. Treat them as single disks, use ZFS and let it manage the storage, from the sounds of it what you have is not a real hardware RAID (even if it was I'd put it in JBOD mode and let ZFS at the drives). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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