From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 9 21:07:27 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 3386716A41F for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 21:07:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jstarng@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A54443D48 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 21:07:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jstarng@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so1876960wra for ; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:07:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=g3sR67hoEdH9VbVU1qnMVoJ3YeKUq7jloHZRj+s/E0v/UjO6SDILhvpu9C5/xHsVSZeARbCkAlqi7HExHvKBQ5CKQAaY4kFNmtcPXcOs/ZiHL/nNMoytQXy/gjtPiQC9THXidVx3S6dyCyxO9VZMmK1H+ML1Ftbg/ZxYp9U3faU= Received: by 10.54.56.33 with SMTP id e33mr708221wra; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.146.11 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2d3ab026050909140779c8ea33@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:07:25 -0400 From: jstarng To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2d3ab026050909140469af253@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <2d3ab02605090913122ef62b3f@mail.gmail.com> <2d3ab026050909140469af253@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: onboard sata raid & freebsd 5.4 need help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jstarng@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:07:27 -0000 atacontrol create RAID0 512 ad4 ad6 ..rather On 9/9/05, jstarng wrote: >=20 > *mans atacontrol >=20 > then types: atacontrol create RAID0 512 ad4 ad6 >=20 > wowwy... >=20 > ... >=20 > now will i have to do this each time i reboot or is there something i can= =20 > do in fstab or something to have it start the raid automatically? >=20 > On 9/9/05, jstarng wrote:=20 > >=20 > > I have the OS installed on an IDE and i want to add two drives for=20 > > RAID-0 striping (1 large drive).=20 > >=20 > > They are two 200GB maxtor SATA HDD's > >=20 > > i plugged them in, and used the bios utility to create the array. > >=20 > > when i start Freebsd i can see the MB's onboard controller listed in=20 > > dmesg as: > >=20 > > atapci0 port blah blah blah irq 20 at=20 > > device 15.0 on pci0 > >=20 > > but then later it lists the drives seperately: > >=20 > > ad4: 194481MB [395136/16/63] at ata2-master= =20 > > SATA150 > > ad6: 194481MB [395136/16/63] at ata2-master= =20 > > SATA150 > >=20 > > so i'm a little confused. was the raid array created? if so how do i ge= t=20 > > freebsd to view it as one drive because when i fdisk to create the=20 > > partitions, i see both drives listed seperately. and if the array was n= ot=20 > > created, can someone please point me in the right direction? > >=20 > > i'm not finding much with google/freebsd handbook. > >=20 >=20 >