Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:29:46 +0100 From: "Roger. O. Svenning" <roger@audioweb.no> To: Jonathan Reeder <jreeder@minutemenu.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question Message-ID: <41C7525A.7020509@audioweb.no> In-Reply-To: <NIECLIJFBLKHJMOALIKPKEFPCNAA.jreeder@minutemenu.com> References: <NIECLIJFBLKHJMOALIKPKEFPCNAA.jreeder@minutemenu.com>
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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
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