From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 16 18:34:59 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 3B4C316A4CA for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:34:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935A213C45B for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:34:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so1607102uge for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:34:57 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=TA2dKSAu3vfV+zmC7BaRZOJCJ/I2mXszr6Zui79NTMO3tQo18HbSJzUvmHVRSn42/We6NoKbKTY7hT2tOBvGkTUiJ3PXCysXp2QxuiLDcBz96zggCG6RskqWesaEFUhWjMKJq0bqP4niKs2kKiJhQFxrEZqCDleIQKSAqGjSH5I= Received: by 10.82.139.17 with SMTP id m17mr1315243bud.1168972496421; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:34:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.175.3 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:34:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <539c60b90701161034s578b1ab1p8f0a07e971767439@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:34:56 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "FreeBSD Users Questions" In-Reply-To: <539c60b90701161033v5e316ef4m19332bd6e86ab67b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <539c60b90701161033v5e316ef4m19332bd6e86ab67b@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2a54063969c921b4 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: Re: 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 18:34:59 -0000 I suppose a couple of other details are in order: 1. FreeBSD is installed on a completely different disk. 2. I checked, and the motherboard still thinks they are mirrored. Steve On 1/16/07, Steve Franks wrote: > > 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 -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089