STLab A-410 SATAII 300 RAID PCI-E & FreeBSD 8-RELEASE

Wed Dec 9 11:02:34 UTC 2009

Ivan Kudryashov wrote:
> Hello!
> When I install FreeBSD8-RELEASE on STLab A-410 on RAID1 mode , the
> installer sees both HDD. Is this normal?

That RAID is 100% software, that's why both drives are still accessible.
FreeBSD ataraid driver also doesn't hide original drives, just provides
additional "arX" device for use.

I would recommend you to read about gmirror, before you get used to that
not-very-RAID.

-- 
Alexander Motin