Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:56:39 +0100 From: John <comp.john@googlemail.com> To: Varan Okul <varanokul@hotmail.com> Cc: amvandemore@gmail.com, kraduk@googlemail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 Message-ID: <20100331005639.GA91332@potato> In-Reply-To: <SNT141-w209EE090DAC38DF33981EAB81F0@phx.gbl> References: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e1003290739t588ae242gef92d14e9d889749@mail.gmail.com> <d36406631003290857v56b3b2b9g1539c9009a636fe8@mail.gmail.com> <20100329172352.GA85779@potato> <SNT141-w209EE090DAC38DF33981EAB81F0@phx.gbl>
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:37:58PM +0000, Varan Okul wrote: > Hi, > > I suggest you try these scenario first. > > 1st - At RAID controller BIOS. > Create 1 small logical drive for FreeBSD installation. > The rest space from RAID0, just create 2TB for each logical drive. > > 2nd - Boot with FreeBSD installation CD/DVD > Lets see FreeBSD bootable CD/DVD can see the small logical drive > created, or not? > > If this not work, may be the RAID controller is too new for this FreeBSD > version. > The CD/DVD doesn't have driver for it inside. > You may need to change to older RAID controller, or move to newer FreeBSD > version. Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could just use zfs for raid functionality. Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. Maybe this is what it's for? -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5
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