Vanishing RAID?

[Eric F Crist]

On Dec 27, 2004, at 9:53 PM, Subhro wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> This is a strange problem. I own a AMD Athlon 64 bit on a Asus K8V SE 
> Deluxe
> motherboard. This motherboard has an onboard VIA SATA RAID controller. 
> Two
> SATA hard drives (120G each) are connected in RAID-0. The already has 
> an
> installation of Windows XP (32 bit edition) and the RAID works 
> properly. It
> shows a net hard disk space of ~240G as expected.
>
> I tried to install FreeBSD adm64 (5.3-R) from the CD. But I am really
> surprised to see the installation utility detect the two hard disks
> separately. The strangest part is, the first hard disk shows the 
> windows
> partitions, however the second hard disk shows empty.
>
> To cross check I disconnected the second Hard disk from the controller 
> and
> windows refused to boot as expected. Could anyone guide me about what 
> is
> happening out there and how I can make the RAID controller work under
> FreeBSD amd64?
>
> Regards
> S.

S,

The VIA SATA RAID controller is not currently supported by FreeBSD.  
You *could* throw in a nice cheap IDE HDD for your FreeBSD purposes...

HTH
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Eric F Crist                  "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!"
Secure Computing Networks              -Homer J Simpson
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