From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 16 18:33:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FCC16A415 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:33:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1AEC13C461 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:33:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so2472694nfc for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:33:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:x-google-sender-auth; b=X3UsLLtzBzzxm3kHx4hQPEZloLcVZ6lkpQGl/sb9pzsOJHzsWeHlr7+aCrJvA8fE4sR287Llog7rwZnc63FRb7UlJhcERedtTjUxQUGP7C4XWVDXC78e7zSgjVLrqyqqNrGqCXah8GUJMO5UPRHhuL7T3Suvf8sgC8v3T7D37e4= Received: by 10.82.105.13 with SMTP id d13mr1307861buc.1168972427820; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:33:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.175.3 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:33:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <539c60b90701161033v5e316ef4m19332bd6e86ab67b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:33:47 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "FreeBSD Users Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Google-Sender-Auth: b38fdbde6e6cad96 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd 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: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:33:51 -0000 I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay again? they can keep their OS). Problem is, I've got 320GB of accumulated detrius on ntfs volumes to migrate. I see there is some good r/w ports for ntfs, so I'm willing to evaluate that to see if it's stable (shoestring budget here obviously - this is my personal stuff only). Forging ahead, I get ready to start playing the mounting game, but lo-and-behold, suddenly I have 4 disks whereas in windows I had two. Now I praise FreeBSD for it's superior intellect here, but now I have a problem. I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones. The RAID is an ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard. Very nice setup for the money. Is this normal? Am I going to break my mirror if I mount a single disk? If so, how do I mount a mirror? Thanks, Steve -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089