From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 23:44:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEB416A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:44:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.freebsdsystems.com (mx1.FreeBSDsystems.COM [69.90.68.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA2743D1D for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:44:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lnb@freebsdsystems.com) Received: (qmail 54320 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jan 2005 23:43:59 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.0.8 ppid: 54307, pid: 54310, t: 5.5784s scanners: attach: 1.0.8 clamav: 0.80rc4/m:28/d:644 spam: 3.0.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (lnb@216.235.9.82) by mx1.freebsdsystems.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 20 Jan 2005 23:43:53 -0000 Message-ID: <41F04237.2050204@freebsdsystems.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:43:51 -0500 From: Lanny Baron Organization: FreeBSD Systems User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Klemm References: <20050118112900.GA14342@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> In-Reply-To: <20050118112900.GA14342@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on mx1.freebsdsystems.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,COMPLETELY_FREE autolearn=ham version=3.0.0 cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 SATA / RAID1 questions for migration from ATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:44:04 -0000 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 /// >