From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 19:59:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FFA16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:59:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from geofront.co.uk (port-179.dolphin.c4l.co.uk [80.253.114.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1011B43D1D for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:59:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Received: from [132.147.16.46] ([195.194.75.70]) by geofront.co.uk (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j0IK3KFT038377; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:03:21 GMT (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Message-ID: <41ED6A83.4050807@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:58:59 +0000 From: Mike Woods User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Lieurance , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4664.192.168.1.150.1106075671.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> <41ED6617.8060506@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> <4846.192.168.1.150.1106078097.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> In-Reply-To: <4846.192.168.1.150.1106078097.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: Hardware Raid question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:59:10 -0000 > Why does the os even detect the individual drives when the raid card made it a > single drive and the os install is after the raid bios??? Because the chipset provides means to control both single disks and arrays thus you get both, just the way that card chose to do things :) ------------- Mike Woods IT Technician