onboard sata raid & freebsd 5.4 need help

[jstarng]

atacontrol create RAID0 512 ad4 ad6

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On 9/9/05, jstarng <jstarng at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> *mans atacontrol
> 
> then types: atacontrol create RAID0 512 ad4 ad6
> 
> wowwy...
> 
> ...
> 
> now will i have to do this each time i reboot or is there something i can 
> do in fstab or something to have it start the raid automatically?
> 
> On 9/9/05, jstarng <jstarng at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > I have the OS installed on an IDE and i want to add two drives for 
> > RAID-0 striping (1 large drive). 
> > 
> > They are two 200GB maxtor SATA HDD's
> > 
> > i plugged them in, and used the bios utility to create the array.
> > 
> > when i start Freebsd i can see the MB's onboard controller listed in 
> > dmesg as:
> > 
> > atapci0 <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> port blah blah blah irq 20 at 
> > device 15.0 on pci0
> > 
> > but then later it lists the drives seperately:
> > 
> > ad4: 194481MB <Maxtor 6L200M0/BANC1G10> [395136/16/63] at ata2-master 
> > SATA150
> > ad6: 194481MB <Maxtor 6L200M0/BANC1G10> [395136/16/63] at ata2-master 
> > SATA150
> > 
> > so i'm a little confused. was the raid array created? if so how do i get 
> > freebsd to view it as one drive because when i fdisk to create the 
> > partitions, i see both drives listed seperately. and if the array was not 
> > created, can someone please point me in the right direction?
> > 
> > i'm not finding much with google/freebsd handbook.
> > 
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