From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 3 18:31:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEEF106564A for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:31:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ogreve@millennics.com) Received: from smtp-1.concepts.nl (smtp-1.concepts.nl [213.197.30.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310A48FC19 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:30:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ogreve@millennics.com) Received: from 5571ff42.ftth.concepts.nl ([85.113.255.66] helo=[192.168.1.106]) by smtp-1.concepts.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MMnIf-0007cP-6g for freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:15:53 +0200 Message-Id: From: Olaf Greve To: "freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 4A102) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:27:00 +0200 X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (4A102) X-Concepts-MailScanner-Information: Please contact abuse@concepts.nl for more information X-Concepts-MailScanner-ID: 1MMnIf-0007cP-6g X-Concepts-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Concepts-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-Concepts-MailScanner-From: ogreve@millennics.com Subject: Howto do SW RAID? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:31:00 -0000 Hi guys, Firstly, thanks to the robustness of FreeBSD-AMD64 it's been many moons since I last found myself in need of help from the pros. :) However, such a situation has arissen now. Up until two weeks ago I was happily running the AMD64 version on my primary server and the i386 version on my secondary machine, with both of them using Adaptec SCSI hardware RAID arrays. All fine but for a failed disc in my secondary machine. Now, it was about time I'd revise the fallback machine anyway, and last week a server from work was phased out and given to me. :) Now, unfortunately I have precious little time to wipe the inferior Debian installation that's currently on it. ;) Some questions: 1-The BIOS lists it as having a Pentium 4 processor that mentions being EM64T compatible, so I think the AMD64 version should be the best choice, right? 2-Unfortunately the drives are not as fancy as my current servers. It has two SATA 160GB drives, set up in software RAID mode. For now, I want to set up fbsd in SW RAID mode too (too little time to buy other drives!). Can anyone explain me briefly how I can set it up? Tnx in advance and cheers, Olafo