ASUS A8N-SLI raid Question

[jason henson]

Martin McCann wrote:

>Hi all, 
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>  I've recently updated to 64 bit (spending way to much money in the process!) 
>and want to get freebsd 6.0 64 bit installed. I am running windows 64 on it 
>(the main reason for the upgrade was games) so it will be dual boot. I have 
>freebsd on a 32 bit system on a kvm switch, so it is not essential to get it 
>on the 64 bit system, but I would like to give it a go. 
>
>My specific question is, the install doesn't seem to pick up the raid, it 
>comes up with ad12 and ad14, reporting both as 80 gig drives, as opposed to 
>the 160 gig raid-0 it should see. Any suggestions on that? 
>
>My other question is just feedback in generally, anyone out there with 
>experience installing 64 bit 6.0 version on an nforce 4 mobo, and any 
>problems I might encounter? I am assuming there are no drivers for SLI mode, 
>is this right, and any sign of them on the horizon? 
>
>
>Cheers, 
>Martin 
>
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Check the list archives or man pages for detials, but I don't think 
FreeBSD supports many hardware raid disk formats, that is why you see 
two 80gig disks.  You will need to do some checking on it, you may have 
to do software raid on it.

See also http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-7676.html