From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 17 19:25:45 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 9B9EF16A41C for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:25:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@idealinter.net) Received: from mail.idealinter.net (mail.idealinter.net [72.242.8.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E1C743D1F for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:25:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@idealinter.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (unknown [72.242.8.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.idealinter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4EE310E42C; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:25:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20050617183845.7DE8743D1F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20050617183845.7DE8743D1F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ken Ebling Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:25:44 -0400 To: Steve Bertrand X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs 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: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:25:45 -0000 On Jun 17, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been running my 4.11 box on a Promise RAID one card with no > difficulty. > > Today I added 2 new disks to the regular IDE chain, and used > atacontrol > to create a second RAID1 configuration for those 2 new disks. After I > created with atacontrol, it successfully told me an 'ar1' had been > created. (ar0 is the promise card). Please clarify. You said you added two new disks to the 'regular ide chain' and then created another RAID1 config for those disks. Are the new drives connected to the Promise RAID controller, or the motherboard's IDE controllers? It sounds like you connected them to the other channel on the Promise card. The card should label the channels "IDE 1" and "IDE 2" or something similar. Did you perhaps have your original drives plugged onto the "IDE 2" channel and add the new drives to the "IDE 1" channel? That's about the only thing I can think of that would make the new drives take priority over the old drives. If that's the case, just switch IDE cables plugging into the Promise controller. Thanks, Ken Ebling