FreeBSD 5.3 SATA / RAID1 questions for migration from ATA

[Lanny Baron]

Hi,
If you are speaking of Host-RAID that is, on-board RAID, it does not yet 
work. FreeBSD does not yet support it.
Regards,
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Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I bought a new socket 939 MSI mainboard
> (amd64, MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum, S.939 NVIDIA Nforce3 Ultra)
> and am planning now how I could best make use of it and
> its BIOS mirroring capabilities.
> 
> In an ideal world I would dream of
> - creating a BIOS based mirror on 2 new SATA drives
> - then install XP and FreeBSD on these bios based mirrord disks.
> - finally move old data to new mirrored disks and thats it.
> 
> After reading the mailinglists I have the feeling that
> - BIOS created mirrors are not useable for a FreeBSD 5.3 installation.
> But I also read
> - that its possible to create a mirror once you have a FreeBSD installed.
> 
> Does this mean, that the BIOS based mirror as well as the
> FreeBSD based mirror solution are partition based ?
> Or is it mixed, that the BIOS based solution mirrors per
> disk and the FreeBSD one per partition ?
> 
> Other questions involved: how well does Serial ATA in 5.3 ?
> 
> Currently I see the following scenario.
> 
> a) Buy 2 SATA disks, create BIOS mirror, install XP
>    move data from ATA disks to new SATA disks
> 
> b) keep the old ATA disks for FreeBSD only and dont mirror them
>   from BIOS.
>    Optionally mirror them from within FreeBSD.
>    Installation would be done newly on one disk, then a magic
>    ata command tells to do a mirror with 2nd disk or related.
> 
> Does somebody make some experiences with scenarios like this
> so that I could ask questions or ideally could do a 
> phonecall in english or german ?
> 
> Thanks a lot for helping me
> 
> 	Andreas ///
>