Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 10:03:10 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: "Boyan Nedkov" <bnedkov@home.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: onboard RAID controller (Asus A7V333) Message-ID: <20020527100310.02604ddd.jud@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <001e01c2057f$7eb19d30$ab01a8c0@wagner> References: <001e01c2057f$7eb19d30$ab01a8c0@wagner>
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On Mon, 27 May 2002 15:07:41 +0200 "Boyan Nedkov" <bnedkov@home.nl> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.5 on a brain new hardware system > based on Asus A7V333 motherboard (VIA VT8233A chipset, supporting > UltraDMA 133/100/66/33), configured for using two equal 60GB hard > disks as a RAID-0 disk storage. I've tested the system with WinXP > and it works fine. But trying to installing FreeBSD I get an error > message "No disk found ..." > I checked the hardware documentation and found out that the VIA > VT8233A chipset is not supported jet, but perhaps somebody knows a > workaround for such problem ??? If that chipset isn't supported yet, someone forgot to tell my computer, which has the ASUS A7V333 mainboard with two 40GB hard drives in RAID-0 configuration. I installed 4.5-RELEASE on this system, which worked fine, and have been following -STABLE regularly with cvsup, most recently last night. The array is seen as ar0 with two subdisks, ad2 and ad4. This is all done automagically (thanks to Soeren Schmidt, I assume). If WinXP sees your RAID-0 array as one disk, it sounds like you have the Promise BIOS installed - correct? I really can't think what else could be causing the problem, so someone smarter than I am will have to help find the solution. For whatever help it is, though, FreeBSD does work with your mainboard. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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