From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 11 06:03:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B3E116A41C for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:03:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from casey@phantombsd.org) Received: from phantombsd.org (dsl231-036-158.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.36.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C567C43D49 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:03:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from casey@phantombsd.org) Received: by phantombsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 342EB102EC9; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat.phantombsd.org (tomcat.phantombsd.org [192.168.1.6]) by phantombsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DCC7102CDD; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:03:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Casey Scott To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:03:40 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20050711002151.336.qmail@web60822.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050711002151.336.qmail@web60822.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507102303.40116.casey@phantombsd.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on eagle.phantombsd.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.4 Cc: Ceasar Navato Subject: Re: RAID1 and FreeBSD 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: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:03:42 -0000 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