Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:38:32 -0500 From: Tim <tim@futuresouth.com> To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> Cc: Aaron <click46@webpimps.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3ware Escalade 6200 RAID Controller Message-ID: <20010823163832.A86219@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <004f01c12c19$fd399b20$14ce21c7@avatar.com>; from kory@avatar.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:24:27PM -0700 References: <20010823161738.B84581@futuresouth.com> <004f01c12c19$fd399b20$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:24:27PM -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > The root filesystem will change from /dev/ad0s1a (IDE Drive) to something > like /dev/sd0a (not a SCSI drive), so the system won't boot. The other > filesystem are not a big deal -- once you boot and mount the root > filesystem, you can edit /etc/fstab. OK, I see what you are saying now. You are taking an existing installation and putting it into RAID. Hmmm, I've never tried that. We've always built a new RAID server and move the data over. Much safer that way. In our system, the drives actually show up as /dev/twed0s1. I guess you could create the RAID volume on the existing system (and I don't even know if you could do this without wiping out the old data), boot from a FreeBSD floppy with a kernel that has 3ware driver on it, then edit /etc/fstab. I am not sure that's much worse than the alternative, if at all. > True, but hopefully that won't happen very often. Does the 3ware let you > rebuild drives on the fly? Yes. > How do you do that understand FBSD. See http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID > Their tech > support could not explain that to me. Are you suppose to use the web > interface of the 3dmd? Yup. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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