From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 14 05:45:53 2005 Return-Path: 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 2946E16A4CE for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 05:45:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from frizzle.3x3x3.org (dsl092-017-115.sfo4.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.17.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D503A43D5A for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 05:45:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren@3x3x3.org) Received: (qmail 39805 invoked by uid 89); 14 May 2005 05:46:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (darren@3x3x3.org@10.0.1.100) by 0 with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP (TLSv1, 256 bits); 14 May 2005 05:46:14 -0000 Message-ID: <42859093.8010602@3x3x3.org> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:45:55 -0700 From: darren david User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sclements@linkline.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SATA RAID 1 controllers for Intel board X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 05:45:53 -0000 Sam- Thanks for your reply on this comment -- this is /exactly/ what i'm hoping to do, finally taking advantage of my onboard ICH5R-based RAID. However, my situation is that i've already got FreeBSD installed and running without having enabled the SATA RAID. If i enable it, do i run the risk of nuking my boot drive? Thanks in advance, darren > Should work just fine with the integrated ICH5R if you CVSUP to > -CURRENT. sos@ has done major work to the ata code recently and I have > many of this exact machine up and running right now. I had to: > > Enable SATA RAID in the BIOS but define no raid > Install FreeBSD on ad4 (or the first disk) > CVSUP to current and rebuild kernel > edit your fstab and change all the ad4 (or whatever disk you installed > on) entries to ar0 > go into RAID BIOS and create a RAID from the first drive > > When it asks you how to create the array, choose Build and it'll copy > your first drive to the second drive, creating a mirror. > > reboot your machine and it should 'just work' > -Sam