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Subject: Re: SATA RAID 1 controllers for Intel board
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> Please do not top post.
Apologies - I'll try to be more diligent about that.

> I was gonna say just define the array beforehand and use the latest 6.x
> snapshot ISO (http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/), but it looks like ATA
> mkIII didn't make it into the tree until 2 weeks after the last
> snapshot.  Until the next snapshot is built it looks like you're stuck
> using the procedure Samuel described.

You could also create your own install media from -CURRENT, but thats a 
tad more involved, but it will yield you a bootable media that you can 
use to install directly onto the RAID from.
   -Sam