hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

[Steve Franks]

I suppose a couple of other details are in order:

1. FreeBSD is installed on a completely different disk.
2. I checked, and the motherboard still thinks they are mirrored.

Steve

On 1/16/07, Steve Franks <stevefranks at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of
> vista's strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have
> to pay again? they can keep their OS).
>
> Problem is, I've got 320GB of accumulated detrius on ntfs volumes to
> migrate.  I see there is some good r/w ports for ntfs, so I'm willing to
> evaluate that to see if it's stable (shoestring budget here obviously - this
> is my personal stuff only).
>
> Forging ahead, I get ready to start playing the mounting game, but
> lo-and-behold, suddenly I have 4 disks whereas in windows I had two.  Now I
> praise FreeBSD for it's superior intellect here, but now I have a problem.
> I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones.  The RAID is an
> ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard.  Very nice setup
> for the money.
>
> Is this normal?  Am I going to break my mirror if I mount a single disk?
> If so, how do I mount a mirror?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> --
> Steve Franks, KE7BTE
> Staff Engineer
> La Palma Devices, LLC
> http://www.lapalmadevices.com
> (520) 312-0089




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Steve Franks, KE7BTE
Staff Engineer
La Palma Devices, LLC
http://www.lapalmadevices.com
(520) 312-0089