Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:03:40 -0700 From: Casey Scott <casey@phantombsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ceasar Navato <jhongjr@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: RAID1 and FreeBSD Message-ID: <200507102303.40116.casey@phantombsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050711002151.336.qmail@web60822.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050711002151.336.qmail@web60822.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sunday 10 July 2005 05:21 pm, Ceasar Navato wrote: > Good day. > > Please help. I have a motherboard that has a SATA > RAID support. I enabled it and configured the RAID > using RAID1 through the BIOS. My question is, do I > also have to configure RAID1 in FreeBSD so that it > automatically mirrors what is in the first disk or my > hardware RAID is enough? > > Thanks, > > > Ceasar V. Navato, Jr. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" With all RAID, you either do software or hardware. Since your drive controller supports RAID, the array will look like any other disk to FBSD. You just treat it like another hard drive. One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of onboard SATA controllers that support RAID actually do so through their driver. Meaning its not really hardware RAID. If the SATA controller only shows that it supports Windows, then it is very likely not truly performing hardware RAID, and won't do anything for FBSD. If thats the case, then you can use FBSD to create a stripe. You pretty much just add a kernel device, and do some simple config work. There is a good howto for that on the FBSD handbook site. Casey
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