Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems

[Bob Bishop]

At 19:52 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote:
>Hi Bob,
>So let me get this right. You installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386

Actually RELENG_6 i386, post 6.1R

>and it does not see ar0 and when you get to disk partion in the 
>install menu it will only report ad4, ad6 ... etc?

Yes. I've found this is not unusual with S(ATA) RAID controllers, and 
often had to do an 'atacontrol create' to persuade sysinstall that it 
really is a RAID. But as you can see from

>>ar0: 238418MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID1> status: READY

it's all OK once the system is installed.

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