From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 30 20:11:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD8A1065670 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:11:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (dsl081-172-045.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.172.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7BC8FC08 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:11:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (localhost.1command.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n3UKBoKs072028 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:11:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: (from www@localhost) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id n3UKBoHB072027 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:11:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from hitme.hitometer.net (hitme.hitometer.net [64.81.172.194]) by webmail.1command.com (H.R. Communications Messaging System) with HTTP; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:11:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20090430131150.sti7evagco08c48g@webmail.1command.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:11:50 -0700 From: Chris H To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20090429024842.sbgmnyjl28ko0kog@webmail.1command.com> <1241011880.93326.26.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20090429120315.gtf026h1wgk84gkk@webmail.1command.com> <20090430113833.95jyc732sc0soscc@webmail.1command.com> In-Reply-To: <20090430113833.95jyc732sc0soscc@webmail.1command.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: H.R. Communications Internet Messaging System (HCIMS) 4.1 Professional (not for redistribution) / UNIX Subject: Where is the: create,install to RAID(0-5) option? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:11:58 -0000 Greetings, FreeBSD appears to have issues installing to an ATA drive/device (UDMA) - see the: ATA DMA issues - are there problems lurking in 7.1? thread for more detail. I've been using FreeBSD for a few years on several Tyan Serverworks Thunder LE-T boards (S2518UGN) on the embeded SCSI (Adaptec) ports w/o any problem. But recently purchased a couple of UDMA166 drives to install FBSD to. This proved to be impossible. Installation proceeded w/o incident, but using it proved impossible due to "timeout" messages that ultimately resulted in failure. So, I now find myself in need of striping several SCSI drives to achieve the capacity required to achieve the desired install base. But as yet there is no option to create/install to (software) RAID in the FreeBSD install. I've done /much/ searching on the topic. All the reading I've done from the results found have left me with more questions, than answers. Has anyone created a (pre)install CD that facilitates this process? The closest I've discovered is: http://www.freenas.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 (FreeNAS). But the documentation for the "SoftwareRAID" is out of date, and I was unable to register on their Forum. Is there a good article/recipe that anyone knows of for creating/installing FreeBSD to RAID0? The closest articles I could find were: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/installation.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-striping.html this one was good, but I wasn't sure how to do this from the install CD, and it appears to presume that a system is already installed. lastly, I found this one: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ I apologize in advance should this been better posted somewhere else, but I'm already subscribed to this list, and it involves problems installing 7 - or any other release on an ATA device. Thank you for all your time and consideration. Sincerely, Chris