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Subject: Re: atacontrol raid1 vs. gmirror
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:14:03AM -0700, Jon Simola wrote:
>       - if they do not probe correctly, check the BIOS settings above
>       - perform a minimal install of FreeBSD 5.3 (do not worry about
> network or anything)
>       - reboot from the installed OS and login as root
>       - Run the command "atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6" to create the raid set

Since the 5.4 CD is now also a live-CD, you could probably do this from
the fixit console rather than having to do an install...

Craig