From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 00:59:34 2010 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 19B18106564A; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:59:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from comp.john@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f216.google.com (mail-bw0-f216.google.com [209.85.218.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E668FC22; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:59:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so6106644bwz.3 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:59:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=KW9lm4HHQztF6UzwvOMh/lmN+IPHDlsUgmaTTF4OMMY=; b=dqDqvM+kdcYg4Ep4UwFnjVg5yvKK9XTQHZrW88vnUCl7A5aYg2HihjkgQzIiEnZLps OjLrvowK4pkAw2o9Z4KsA7fcGA26LSiSeyQqpkx/RPc2cxpi9sKIezom6ZUVQcefiQQ+ 3RfMR2BxtLF16DOiUnGqCMBz+9rJxDNwCBrw8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=p2TlmoHwM9DgjvPV9bE+tkV6LhidzaZEI3vz35VHCyN2WtQGzQQQeOSNNlyq3xsO42 7FFDmXCvJqq7QTq15ppgDaVEAXXZJnlfLywEJ2vOT+4mc96UV3XoQZ4ne/wxNAGg/VK4 oAOi3AO4ckeiKSONMFzODN455+FnqtT3DRPTw= Received: by 10.204.155.69 with SMTP id r5mr3977463bkw.0.1269997172146; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potato (potato.growveg.org [62.49.247.163]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm52748353bkr.12.2010.03.30.17.59.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:59:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:56:39 +0100 From: John To: Varan Okul Message-ID: <20100331005639.GA91332@potato> References: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e1003290739t588ae242gef92d14e9d889749@mail.gmail.com> <20100329172352.GA85779@potato> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 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: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:59:34 -0000 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