Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:56:22 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Spades <spades@galaxynet.org> Subject: Re: raid1 Message-ID: <200502190056.22966.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <5895876136a642eb60e73d6ebe87729c@shire.net> References: <421467C0.9060801@ant.uni-bremen.de> <00b301c5164e$ae86b0d0$162dc2cb@astral> <5895876136a642eb60e73d6ebe87729c@shire.net>
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On Saturday 19 February 2005 00:51, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Feb 18, 2005, at 11:39 PM, Spades wrote: > > hi, my server hardware supports hardware raid, i installed it > > as per normal freebsd 5.3, however i see no difference > > in df. its using 2 x 160GB, what do i do during the installation > > to enable the raid? > > > > mobo: > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7320/X6DV > >L- EG.cfm > > > > -bash-2.05b$ df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad4s1a 66008394 35424 60692300 0% / > > devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev > > /dev/ad4s1d 66008394 24 60727700 0% /home > > /dev/ad4s1e 10154158 683442 8658384 7% /usr > > /dev/ad4s1f 8172302 982 7517536 0% /var > > -bash-2.05b$ > > What do you expect to see? > > A raid1 is a mirror set and to the OS would probably look like a > single drive if it truly is a HW raid > > Chad The RAID will ususally show up as something other than ad(x). Generally you create the RAID array in the controller's BIOS and FreeBSD detects it as a single disk (in my case ar0). You may want to google around to see if your controller is supported. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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