From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 27 11:47:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4CF37B43E; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:47:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13T7Zv-00007c-00; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:54:47 -0600 Message-ID: <39A963F7.8A38871A@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:54:47 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Thomas Stromberg , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions.. References: <200008260724.AAA00625@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message