Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:45:55 -0700 From: darren david <darren@3x3x3.org> To: sclements@linkline.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA RAID 1 controllers for Intel board Message-ID: <42859093.8010602@3x3x3.org>
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Sam- Thanks for your reply on this comment -- this is /exactly/ what i'm hoping to do, finally taking advantage of my onboard ICH5R-based RAID. However, my situation is that i've already got FreeBSD installed and running without having enabled the SATA RAID. If i enable it, do i run the risk of nuking my boot drive? Thanks in advance, darren > Should work just fine with the integrated ICH5R if you CVSUP to > -CURRENT. sos@ has done major work to the ata code recently and I have > many of this exact machine up and running right now. I had to: > > Enable SATA RAID in the BIOS but define no raid > Install FreeBSD on ad4 (or the first disk) > CVSUP to current and rebuild kernel > edit your fstab and change all the ad4 (or whatever disk you installed > on) entries to ar0 > go into RAID BIOS and create a RAID from the first drive > > When it asks you how to create the array, choose Build and it'll copy > your first drive to the second drive, creating a mirror. > > reboot your machine and it should 'just work' > -Sam
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