Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:13:35 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: John <comp.john@googlemail.com> Cc: Varan Okul <varanokul@hotmail.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: <6201873e1003301813o32024529s8dae620af17b87db@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100331005639.GA91332@potato> References: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e1003290739t588ae242gef92d14e9d889749@mail.gmail.com> <d36406631003290857v56b3b2b9g1539c9009a636fe8@mail.gmail.com> <20100329172352.GA85779@potato> <SNT141-w209EE090DAC38DF33981EAB81F0@phx.gbl> <20100331005639.GA91332@potato>
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John <comp.john@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > Your best bet would be to configure the drives as JBOD and see if it detects the disks. Post dmesg from that. -- Adam Vande More
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