From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 04:30:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72AE11065672 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:30:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A778FC14 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:30:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so3001243rvf.43 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:29:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; bh=TGw7nZfPgzB2VFrMhiTZIuUrQ/jokxSUbrMmT6ufSV8=; b=vtvzHP62hmDG3GWJDYSt8tW/tdgniGAUicXnRkzeAGM94+7iuffuwW9FBoB+3tc+Yw K3NwpHgLNaPoNdmwE40xBIpZpURR0mAazPMO33iUxzPziqdKc70WlsdgsQsuoMZEf6jp vDp1GDpJYRVmG2u0M/rOkMgsCLgcpF5siETWQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=ato8e7SnwbUjN486cvHDzq5Ver9BtkjMO2RQe4o1gjJHrUArTjLZlQ8VtqQxShKVMB naJsBg2sQ0FJAIGSk9f8ArVTdSRLWU/tDuaOgjAaD5RMYlLPhmBsgeUETtagTqO5dV0q 2iUUPCSefff+VJEiKcvSQJ81F8L3oO7Mw8Wvw= Received: by 10.141.162.9 with SMTP id p9mr2570095rvo.199.1219724999535; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sniper ( [71.221.187.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b39sm9125048rvf.0.2008.08.25.21.29.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:29:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Falanga To: FreeBSD Questions Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:29:08 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808252229.08969.af300wsm@gmail.com> Subject: SATA, RAID and AHCI X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:30:00 -0000 Hi, As I mentioned in response to a thread started by someone wanting drivers for a Realtek 8111c NIC, I'm building a server for our church. We purchased an ASUS motherboard, M3A78 PRO (in case it matters or anyone cares). Everyone is already aware of FreeBSD's lack of driver support for the RTL8111c NIC which, unfortunately, is embedded on this MOBO. This question is about the storage settings for this board (ASUS' name for it is "Storage Configuration"). In the CMOS (or whatever it's called these days, just out of curiousity, will FreeBSD support things like OpenBoot or UEFI on i386, sorry for the digression), I found where to turn the "Storage Configuration," as ASUS calls it, from "IDE," to "RAID," or "AHCI." It's currently set to "IDE" because when set to RAID the MOBO apparently kept trying to put the SATA DVD drive as part of the RAID and when set to AHCI mode the install had hundreds of, "can't create symlink, no inodes free," during the copying of the files into the newly created file systems. Now, I'm a complete neophyte to making these SATA RAID systems. What's the magic to making it work, and how do you keep the DVD drive from being part of the RAID? Also, what should be done for AHCI mode? It looked as though in this mode the drives would perform *much* faster. Thanks, Andy