From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 18:26:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6CF106566B for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:26:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout024.mac.com (asmtpout024.mac.com [17.148.16.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3648FC13 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:26:49 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp024.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-18.01 64bit (built Jul 15 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LOL0097BF7ZVH90@asmtp024.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:26:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.4.6813,1.0.211,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-07-19_05:2011-07-19, 2011-07-19, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=1 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1107190143 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <1311099631.2262.20.camel@asus> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:26:23 -0700 Message-id: References: <1311099631.2262.20.camel@asus> To: tomdean@speakeasy.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:26:50 -0000 Hi-- On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G), > ar0(RAID0) > > I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'. > > Which disk do I select for installation? ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I would advise against using Intel's Matrix pseudo-RAID for a boot volume, and I would also advise against using RAID-0 in most cases, unless you keep good backups. RAID-1 or RAID-10 are much safer-- use geom's gmirror. Regards, -- -Chuck