From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 15:24:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87EA016A400 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:24:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8B313C447 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:24:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so65680uge for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 08:24:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kFk8JimPVRoeEM3SWMdB5oLwXGT6EvZoE2weLs+DG3IYgpvUmhzUP0ND1o6HdDcVRQ2/xa5tPg4CYoWcS8K+KOb5FK1vxwGdvCoGNlRN8tYxWdHxdRz3qARn7IiRmwCCXs84sapkH0d6B3u+iQHH2LfTiAI0y7AutZgg2j6USr0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dXTsoiAhRXFIFo9CRs34748pwvEJTQgoGOLEpEH/BwqQ/Vrog89FdvkRZlKKlZiQ5OE1wkFtLsf8CtC1D0K7CVN49coMfRJQ8ZGvQWWlrdxhfY589wEZZBne+wfK0bGzmY0m3uDKtd7/QvsrQBjk1Ar68nK5IHqbMtyvynQKiFw= Received: by 10.82.162.14 with SMTP id k14mr3449783bue.1180020269784; Thu, 24 May 2007 08:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.16 with HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 08:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:24:29 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Derek Ragona" In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070524100315.023efae0@mail.computinginnovations.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <54316.74.2.36.140.1179892303.squirrel@mail.el.net> <61733.74.64.6.149.1180002606.squirrel@mail.el.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20070524100315.023efae0@mail.computinginnovations.com> Cc: kalin@el.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raid or not raid X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:24:31 -0000 On 24/05/07, Derek Ragona wrote: > At 05:30 AM 5/24/2007, kalin mintchev wrote: > > >so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? > >wrong list? > > > > > hi all.. > > > > > > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has > > > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of > > > slices. > > > under devices there is another name - ad6 - but it's not mounted anywhere. > > > the one i see both in df and the fstab is ad4 with one big slice and > > > different partitions.... > > > > > > they insist there are 2 raided discs in tha machine. the os is 5.4 and i > > > think at that point the raid drivers were still considered 'experimental'. > > > > > > it makes sense to me that if i don't see a second drive in the fstab there > > > isn;t any mounting which means that there is no raid going on... > > > > > > is there any other way i can make sure if raid is actually on? > > > would there will be any logs somewhere? > > > the machine has been up for about 2 years and the dmesg is long gone... > > > > > > thanks..... > > > > > > > > It is likely a hardware raid setup in the hardware BEFORE FreeBSD was > installed. In this type of setup the RAID array just looks like a regular > hard disk to the OS. > Now I'm curious: are there RAID controllers that FreeBSD just sees as a [S]ATA controller with a [S]ATA disk attached? -- --