Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:54:47 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions.. Message-ID: <39A963F7.8A38871A@softweyr.com> References: <200008260724.AAA00625@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > (excuse complete ignorance as far as IDE RAID below)
> >
> > For the buildbox here, I decided to go ahead with Soren's ATA-100 RAID
> > suggestion, and bought an Abit KT7-RAID motherboard, which has an onboard
> > Highpoint HPT-370 ATA-100 RAID. I'm using two 15G IBM 75GX drives on it.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > While "lsdev" from the boot floppy shows one drive, in FreeBSD & fdisk
> > they show up as two 15G drives (ad4s1 & ad6s1) rather then a 30G
> > concatanated one.
>
> This is not an "IDE RAID" controller. It's an IDE controller with some
> lame "RAID" software in the BIOS. We don't support this.
Consider using vinum as an alternative. It is supported. ;^)
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