Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:33:47 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "FreeBSD Users Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd Message-ID: <539c60b90701161033v5e316ef4m19332bd6e86ab67b@mail.gmail.com>
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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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