From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 04:01:03 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 38D6316A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:01:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from grog.secure-computing.net (grog.secure-computing.net [63.228.14.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 943B243D53 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:01:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-66-41-157-209.mn.client2.attbi.com [66.41.157.209]) (authenticated bits=0)iBT411c9058157; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:01:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) In-Reply-To: <41d0d8cb.380bc480.41e0.0dd3@smtp.gmail.com> References: <41d0d8cb.380bc480.41e0.0dd3@smtp.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-3--715880576" Message-Id: <3CC2E140-594E-11D9-90F8-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric F Crist Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:00:54 -0600 To: "Subhro" X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.2 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: 'FreeBSD_Questions' Subject: Re: Vanishing RAID? 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: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:01:03 -0000 --Apple-Mail-3--715880576 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Dec 27, 2004, at 9:53 PM, Subhro wrote: > Hi folks, > > This is a strange problem. I own a AMD Athlon 64 bit on a Asus K8V SE > Deluxe > motherboard. This motherboard has an onboard VIA SATA RAID controller. > Two > SATA hard drives (120G each) are connected in RAID-0. The already has > an > installation of Windows XP (32 bit edition) and the RAID works > properly. It > shows a net hard disk space of ~240G as expected. > > I tried to install FreeBSD adm64 (5.3-R) from the CD. But I am really > surprised to see the installation utility detect the two hard disks > separately. The strangest part is, the first hard disk shows the > windows > partitions, however the second hard disk shows empty. > > To cross check I disconnected the second Hard disk from the controller > and > windows refused to boot as expected. Could anyone guide me about what > is > happening out there and how I can make the RAID controller work under > FreeBSD amd64? > > Regards > S. S, The VIA SATA RAID controller is not currently supported by FreeBSD. You *could* throw in a nice cheap IDE HDD for your FreeBSD purposes... HTH _______________________________________________________ Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson --Apple-Mail-3--715880576 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkHSK/YACgkQRAAY9knOW+pcnACeP26q1EUPxK5Le7N0HEcXw5qe cq0AoIlIdNZdi3podrLpbYWuFcCdJiE2 =fHcj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-3--715880576--