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Date:      Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:00:54 -0600
From:      Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net>
To:        "Subhro" <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
Cc:        'FreeBSD_Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Vanishing RAID?
Message-ID:  <3CC2E140-594E-11D9-90F8-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net>
In-Reply-To: <41d0d8cb.380bc480.41e0.0dd3@smtp.gmail.com>
References:  <41d0d8cb.380bc480.41e0.0dd3@smtp.gmail.com>

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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

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