From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 09:58:20 2007 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 88F1516A41A for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:58:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv2.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f03:1f1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C0F13C480 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:58:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from prawn.unsane.co.uk (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9A9wv41037780 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:58:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <470CA233.8080007@unsane.co.uk> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:58:11 +0100 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070816) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nodje References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition 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 Oct 2007 09:58:20 -0000 Sounds like you have one of those 'fake' raid controllers (http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html ), where its software raid with a hook into the bios so its bootable, while the work is done in software. This isnt supported by Freebsd (the fake raid 1 is supported by the ataraid driver for many chipsets though.) I dont know of any work to get it supported, although if you want software RAID5 gvinum supports it (and thats actively worked on.) Vince nodje wrote: > I couldn't find any answer to the question.The problem is that the installer > shows up all the disks instead of proposing to install somewhere on the > RAID5 partition, in other words, it just doesn't recognize the RAID5. > Is it possible at all to install freeBSD on one of those RAID?? > > I've found out that this is also a problem with the few linux distros I've > tried. I've heard it was possible now but I'm a little bit surprised by the > slow adoption I must say. > > > I've been using those Intel RAID with Windows for a couple of years now and > it really helped solve my backup problem. > I think this is simply great, no worries of data loss anymore (at least > coming from hardware failure). > > -nodje > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"