raid1

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Feb 18, 2005, at 11:39 PM, Spades wrote:

> hi, my server hardware supports hardware raid, i installed it
> as per normal freebsd 5.3, however i see no difference
> in df. its using 2 x 160GB, what do i do during the installation
> to enable the raid?
>
> mobo:  
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7320/X6DVL- 
> EG.cfm
>
> -bash-2.05b$ df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks   Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad4s1a  66008394  35424 60692300     0%    /
> devfs               1      1        0   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad4s1d  66008394     24 60727700     0%    /home
> /dev/ad4s1e  10154158 683442  8658384     7%    /usr
> /dev/ad4s1f   8172302    982  7517536     0%    /var
> -bash-2.05b$
>

What do you expect to see?

A raid1 is a mirror set and to the OS would probably look like a single  
drive if it truly is a HW raid

Chad