From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 13 16:06:14 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69452C7589D for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:06:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from smtp3.irishbroadband.ie (smtp3.irishbroadband.ie [62.231.32.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3706D1A8B for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:06:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from [89.127.62.20] (helo=smtp.lan.sohara.org) by smtp3.irishbroadband.ie with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1cGpaf-0007JM-7Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:06:05 +0000 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.87 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1cGpbE-000IHG-NC for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:06:40 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:05:58 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:06:14 -0000 On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:40:04 +0100 Luciano Mannucci 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