Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 09:33:27 -0600 (CST) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Luciano Mannucci" <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on Hardware Raid Message-ID: <37646.128.135.52.6.1481643207.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <3tdHnK1zRXzRRqQ@baobab.bilink.it> References: <3tdHnK1zRXzRRqQ@baobab.bilink.it>
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On Tue, December 13, 2016 5:40 am, Luciano Mannucci wrote: > > Hello to everybody! > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 10.3 (11.0 doesn't boot due to old EFI > buggy implementation) on a 2010 Intel Server Board S5400SF machine, > bearing an Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology II, with two arrays > of SATA hard disks. > > When I boot the installation DVD of the 10.3-RELEASE, it sees the > single disks instead of the arrays. It destroys the arrays if I let it > write to the disks. This pretty much is the behavior with fake RAID (aka software RAID). Forget about on board "RAID" chip, install hardware RAID card, and y9ou will have no problem. All my FreeBSD machine live on hardware RAIDs. Never had any problem at all. I would recommend (in my preference order): 3ware, LSI, Areca. Nether of these ever soiled their reputation by selling fake RAID chips/cards. The first two are bought out (several times), and now are owned bu the same Intel, but still go by their original brand name. I strongly would recommend against any RAID cards by companies that also sell fake RAID cards/chips. Their cards will not worth of what you will pay for them, even if they indeed are hardware RAID and are cheaper than cards from good guys I mentioned above. I hope, this helps. Valeri > > M$-Windows install straightforward without problems. > > I have'nt tried Linux yet. > > Thanks in advance to everybody for any help, > > Luciano. > -- > /"\ /Via A. Salaino, 7 - 20144 Milano (Italy) > \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / PHONE : +39 2 485781 FAX: +39 2 48578250 > X AGAINST HTML MAIL / E-MAIL: posthamster@sublink.sublink.ORG > / \ AND POSTINGS / WWW: http://www.lesassaie.IT/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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