From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 20 22:34:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3551D16A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:34:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.itconnect.no (mail.itconnect.no [80.89.32.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14DEC43D46 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:34:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roger@audioweb.no) Received: from [192.168.1.204] (oenk7.dsl.itconnect.no [80.89.37.17] (may be forged)) by mail.itconnect.no (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id iBKMY4VP022505; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:34:05 +0100 Message-ID: <41C7525A.7020509@audioweb.no> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:29:46 +0100 From: "Roger. O. Svenning" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: nb, no, nn MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Reeder References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ITCMAIL-MailScanner-Information: Denne e-posten har passert itConnect AS sin virus vask (internett@itconnect.no) X-ITCMAIL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: roger@audioweb.no cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:34:19 -0000 Jonathan Reeder wrote: >I just got a Dell PowerEdge SC420 (or something like that) with the CERC >SATA 2S RAID. When the server boots, the Adaptec utility tells me that I >have one array configured, a RAID 1 with 2 drives. However, when I launch >the 5.3 installer and go to Allocate Disk Space options, it sees two drives >rather than the single RAID array. The two drives it sees are ad4 and ad6. >I get an error when I select either of them, saying: > > RAID on your SATA controller are not supported by FreeBSD. If supported you'd see the array as ar0 along with the ad(4|6) entries. >"A geometry of 310019/16/63 for ad(4|6) is incorrect. Using a more likely >geometry..." > > > This is quite normal >Any thoughts on how I can get FreeBSD to see my SATA array as an array >rather than as two separate drives? > > Get a supported SATA controller. I'm using the HighPoint Rocketraid 15xx ones, tho there seem to be some speed issues as I get very low transfer speeds on the arrays. Roger O. Svenning