From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 15:27:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D83F16A4DD for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:27:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darrendavid@thebomb.com) Received: from citiz3n.com (mail.citiz3n.com [66.98.202.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2554143D8B for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:27:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darrendavid@thebomb.com) Received: (qmail 54233 invoked by uid 89); 26 Jul 2006 15:27:19 -0000 Received: from dsl092-017-251.sfo4.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO ?10.0.1.100?) (darren@citiz3n.com@66.92.17.251) by 0 with ESMTPA; 26 Jul 2006 15:27:19 -0000 Message-ID: <44C789D9.2050008@thebomb.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:27:21 -0700 From: Darren David User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD 6.1 installer doesn't recognize ICH5R RAID1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:27:31 -0000 hi all- I had also posted this message to freebsd-questions, but thought this might be a more appropriate list, so apologies if some of you are seeing double. I'm doing a clean install to 6.1, and i've decided to set up my system drives as RAID 1 now that I see that 6.1 has support for the ICH5R raid controller. My BIOS recognizes the SATA RAID 1 array correctly, but the FreeBSD installer still sees 'ad4' and 'ad6' as two separate drives. The installer has no problem with my 3ware 9500-based RAID5 array. FWIW, ad4 and ad6 both have old installs of freebsd 5.4 on them, including bootloaders, not sure if that's causing some of the confusion here. should i format the RAID1 array first using the Intel utility? or should i just look to gmirror? thanks in advance, darren david