onboard sata raid & freebsd 5.4 need help

jstarng jstarng at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 14:04:48 PDT 2005


*mans atacontrol

then types: atacontrol RAID0 512 ad4 ad6

wowwy...

...

now will i have to do this each time i reboot or is there something i can do 
in fstab or something to have it start the raid automatically?

On 9/9/05, jstarng <jstarng at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have the OS installed on an IDE and i want to add two drives for RAID-0 
> striping (1 large drive).
> 
> They are two 200GB maxtor SATA HDD's
> 
> i plugged them in, and used the bios utility to create the array.
> 
> when i start Freebsd i can see the MB's onboard controller listed in dmesg 
> as:
> 
> atapci0 <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> port blah blah blah irq 20 at device 
> 15.0 on pci0
> 
> but then later it lists the drives seperately:
> 
> ad4: 194481MB <Maxtor 6L200M0/BANC1G10> [395136/16/63] at ata2-master 
> SATA150
> ad6: 194481MB <Maxtor 6L200M0/BANC1G10> [395136/16/63] at ata2-master 
> SATA150
> 
> so i'm a little confused. was the raid array created? if so how do i get 
> freebsd to view it as one drive because when i fdisk to create the 
> partitions, i see both drives listed seperately. and if the array was not 
> created, can someone please point me in the right direction?
> 
> i'm not finding much with google/freebsd handbook.
>


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