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On Aug 13, 2004, at 12:15 AM, eric wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 23:46:36 -0500, David Kelly proclaimed...
>
>> What does the machine BIOS say? On Dell 400SC one has to enable the
>> SATA interfaces in BIOS before any OS can see them.
>
> Yea, everthing is enabled and I build a single logical disk out of
> the two disks.

Why didn't you say so in the first place? Clearly whatever SATA RAID 
controller you are using is not recognized. It might work if the RAID 
is not enabled.

Then once FreeBSD is up you can implement your RAID in software with 
vinum.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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