From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 14:38:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296D537B40F for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:38:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@futuresouth.com) Received: (from tim@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f7NLcWl87109; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:38:32 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:38:32 -0500 From: Tim To: Kory Hamzeh Cc: Aaron , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3ware Escalade 6200 RAID Controller Message-ID: <20010823163832.A86219@futuresouth.com> References: <20010823161738.B84581@futuresouth.com> <004f01c12c19$fd399b20$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004f01c12c19$fd399b20$14ce21c7@avatar.com>; from kory@avatar.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:24:27PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:24:27PM -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > The root filesystem will change from /dev/ad0s1a (IDE Drive) to something > like /dev/sd0a (not a SCSI drive), so the system won't boot. The other > filesystem are not a big deal -- once you boot and mount the root > filesystem, you can edit /etc/fstab. OK, I see what you are saying now. You are taking an existing installation and putting it into RAID. Hmmm, I've never tried that. We've always built a new RAID server and move the data over. Much safer that way. In our system, the drives actually show up as /dev/twed0s1. I guess you could create the RAID volume on the existing system (and I don't even know if you could do this without wiping out the old data), boot from a FreeBSD floppy with a kernel that has 3ware driver on it, then edit /etc/fstab. I am not sure that's much worse than the alternative, if at all. > True, but hopefully that won't happen very often. Does the 3ware let you > rebuild drives on the fly? Yes. > How do you do that understand FBSD. See http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID > Their tech > support could not explain that to me. Are you suppose to use the web > interface of the 3dmd? Yup. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message