Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:07:25 -0400 From: jstarng <jstarng@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: onboard sata raid & freebsd 5.4 need help Message-ID: <2d3ab026050909140779c8ea33@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2d3ab026050909140469af253@mail.gmail.com> References: <2d3ab02605090913122ef62b3f@mail.gmail.com> <2d3ab026050909140469af253@mail.gmail.com>
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atacontrol create RAID0 512 ad4 ad6 ..rather On 9/9/05, jstarng <jstarng@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > *mans atacontrol >=20 > then types: atacontrol create RAID0 512 ad4 ad6 >=20 > wowwy... >=20 > ... >=20 > now will i have to do this each time i reboot or is there something i can= =20 > do in fstab or something to have it start the raid automatically? >=20 > On 9/9/05, jstarng <jstarng@gmail.com> wrote:=20 > >=20 > > I have the OS installed on an IDE and i want to add two drives for=20 > > RAID-0 striping (1 large drive).=20 > >=20 > > They are two 200GB maxtor SATA HDD's > >=20 > > i plugged them in, and used the bios utility to create the array. > >=20 > > when i start Freebsd i can see the MB's onboard controller listed in=20 > > dmesg as: > >=20 > > atapci0 <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> port blah blah blah irq 20 at=20 > > device 15.0 on pci0 > >=20 > > but then later it lists the drives seperately: > >=20 > > ad4: 194481MB <Maxtor 6L200M0/BANC1G10> [395136/16/63] at ata2-master= =20 > > SATA150 > > ad6: 194481MB <Maxtor 6L200M0/BANC1G10> [395136/16/63] at ata2-master= =20 > > SATA150 > >=20 > > so i'm a little confused. was the raid array created? if so how do i ge= t=20 > > freebsd to view it as one drive because when i fdisk to create the=20 > > partitions, i see both drives listed seperately. and if the array was n= ot=20 > > created, can someone please point me in the right direction? > >=20 > > i'm not finding much with google/freebsd handbook. > >=20 >=20 >
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