Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:43:51 -0500 From: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 SATA / RAID1 questions for migration from ATA Message-ID: <41F04237.2050204@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20050118112900.GA14342@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> References: <20050118112900.GA14342@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org>
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Hi, If you are speaking of Host-RAID that is, on-board RAID, it does not yet work. FreeBSD does not yet support it. Regards, =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lanny Baron Proud to be 100% FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Andreas Klemm wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a new socket 939 MSI mainboard > (amd64, MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum, S.939 NVIDIA Nforce3 Ultra) > and am planning now how I could best make use of it and > its BIOS mirroring capabilities. > > In an ideal world I would dream of > - creating a BIOS based mirror on 2 new SATA drives > - then install XP and FreeBSD on these bios based mirrord disks. > - finally move old data to new mirrored disks and thats it. > > After reading the mailinglists I have the feeling that > - BIOS created mirrors are not useable for a FreeBSD 5.3 installation. > But I also read > - that its possible to create a mirror once you have a FreeBSD installed. > > Does this mean, that the BIOS based mirror as well as the > FreeBSD based mirror solution are partition based ? > Or is it mixed, that the BIOS based solution mirrors per > disk and the FreeBSD one per partition ? > > Other questions involved: how well does Serial ATA in 5.3 ? > > Currently I see the following scenario. > > a) Buy 2 SATA disks, create BIOS mirror, install XP > move data from ATA disks to new SATA disks > > b) keep the old ATA disks for FreeBSD only and dont mirror them > from BIOS. > Optionally mirror them from within FreeBSD. > Installation would be done newly on one disk, then a magic > ata command tells to do a mirror with 2nd disk or related. > > Does somebody make some experiences with scenarios like this > so that I could ask questions or ideally could do a > phonecall in english or german ? > > Thanks a lot for helping me > > Andreas /// >
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