freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John <comp.john at googlemail.com> wrote:

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> Hi, thanks for your input.
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> I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot
> from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed?
>
> What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't
> select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could
> just use zfs for raid functionality.
>
> Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot.
> Maybe this is what it's for?
> --
> John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com
> OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop
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>

Your best bet would be to configure the drives as JBOD and see if it detects
the disks.  Post dmesg from that.

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Adam Vande More