SATA Raid Controlller replacement card...

[Freddie Cash]

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 01:18 pm, Jan Knepper wrote:
> Currently using the SiI 3114 SATA150 controller on the motherboard
> (Tyan2885).
> 2 *the same* SATA drives are attached, but not running SATA-RAID at the
> moment.
>
> Since I understand that this card does not really provide the RAID
> itself (and also does not seem as table as preferred on FreeBSD) I am
> wondering/considering obtaining a RAID card that does and possibly
> disabling the SiI 314 on the motherboard.

Definitely a good idea to go with hardware RAID.

Although, for RAID1, you could probably get away with using gmirror on 
those drives connected to the SiI controller.

> However, the question is can that be done without having to reinstall?
> (I seem to recall that I can not just move SCSI drives from one
> interface to an interface of an other brand).

Yes you can.  Just swap the drivers, then boot off an install CD and 
select the Fixit option.  That way, you can check the dmesg output to see 
if/how the drives are named.  Then you just mount the / partition and 
edit the /etc/fstab file with the new names.

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Freddie Cash
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