Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:00:54 -0600 From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: "Subhro" <subhro.kar@gmail.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD_Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Vanishing RAID? Message-ID: <3CC2E140-594E-11D9-90F8-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <41d0d8cb.380bc480.41e0.0dd3@smtp.gmail.com> References: <41d0d8cb.380bc480.41e0.0dd3@smtp.gmail.com>
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--Apple-Mail-3--715880576 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Dec 27, 2004, at 9:53 PM, Subhro wrote: > Hi folks, > > This is a strange problem. I own a AMD Athlon 64 bit on a Asus K8V SE > Deluxe > motherboard. This motherboard has an onboard VIA SATA RAID controller. > Two > SATA hard drives (120G each) are connected in RAID-0. The already has > an > installation of Windows XP (32 bit edition) and the RAID works > properly. It > shows a net hard disk space of ~240G as expected. > > I tried to install FreeBSD adm64 (5.3-R) from the CD. But I am really > surprised to see the installation utility detect the two hard disks > separately. The strangest part is, the first hard disk shows the > windows > partitions, however the second hard disk shows empty. > > To cross check I disconnected the second Hard disk from the controller > and > windows refused to boot as expected. Could anyone guide me about what > is > happening out there and how I can make the RAID controller work under > FreeBSD amd64? > > Regards > S. S, The VIA SATA RAID controller is not currently supported by FreeBSD. You *could* throw in a nice cheap IDE HDD for your FreeBSD purposes... HTH _______________________________________________________ Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson --Apple-Mail-3--715880576 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkHSK/YACgkQRAAY9knOW+pcnACeP26q1EUPxK5Le7N0HEcXw5qe cq0AoIlIdNZdi3podrLpbYWuFcCdJiE2 =fHcj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-3--715880576--
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