From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 20:56:56 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 E881A1065675 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:56:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mail.gelita.se (212-162-182-244.skbbip.com [212.162.182.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97608FC2E for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gelita.se (localhost.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4CE10E79E; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:58:59 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at troback.com Received: from mail.gelita.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (mail.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id z93BftgjX5Hf; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:58:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC9610E50A; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:58:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B980792.3050103@eskk.nu> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:56:50 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sos@freebsd.ord Subject: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers 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, 10 Mar 2010 20:56:57 -0000 I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8-RELEASE on a machine with an Abit aw8-max MB. This MB has a built in SiI 3132 RAID controller. I also have an addon card with a SiI 3124 RAID controller. The problem is that I can see the 2 disks and the RAID1 set that I want to use for the system if I connect the disks to the built in 3132 controller. But if I connect the disks to the 3124 controller and create a RAID1 set, only the disks can be seen. I need to be able to use both controllers because I've got four disks that I want to build a RAID5 set on one of the controllers. Can anyone shed some light on this. Via Google I've read some articles about these controllers and I'm aware that I might have to rethink because of lacking support for the 3124 controller. I've read in the ata man page that parameters can be added to /boot/device.hints but I'm not sure how to handle this during installation. /Leslie