Newbie install question about disks

[Nikolas Britton]

On 6/15/06, DSA - JCR <juancr at dsa.es> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am installing a new and all Freebsd system (no other OS in it). The goal
> is to have a NFS for a network that has 2x200Gb in RAID 1 disks for data.
>
> It has 3 disks:
> - 80Gb Seagate IDE for FreeBSD OS alone
> - 2xSATA Seagate 200Gb disks in RAID 1 with the ICH7R motherboard chipset
> configured SATA II.
>
> and 1 CD-RW.
>
> The BIOS has 3 IDE plugs and 4 SATA.
>
> I install from the CD FreeBSD 6.1 May 2006  (I've tried "i386" and
> "amd64", because is a EM64T 6xx)
>
> In sysinstall appears:
> - ad0 => HD 80GB  (for FreeBSD OS at complete)
> - ad12 => oine of the SATA HD I think
> - ad8 => The other SATA HD I think
> - ar0 =>  ???????????????  (I suppose this is the RAID isnt'it?)
>
> What must I do?
>
> - Make filesystem for the 3 (ad12, ad8, ar0)?
> - Make only for ar0?

Make only for ar0, but I'd look into why the devices are showing up as
ad8 and ad12.


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