From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 14:10:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FEB916A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:10:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A691A43D54 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([24.7.73.28]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004012322101001500kisbhe>; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:10:11 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA41714 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:10:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:10:08 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: FreeBSD current users Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: ata0-raid oddness. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:10:13 -0000 I just installed 5.2 on an AMD-64 based machine that has teh promise 319 ata-raid hardware (and the drives are attached to it). the drives were set up as JBOD (Just a bunch of Disks) so that they appear a 2 virtual disks each mapped directly over a single real disk.. teh intersting thing is that the real disks show up too.. so I have 2 names for each disk.. ad0 and ar0 ar etyhe same disk and ar1 and ad1 are the same disk.. is this expected? sysinstall presented me with all four drives as options even though there are only 2 in the machine... ad0 [ ] ad1 [ ] ar0 [ ] ar1 [ ] See? 2 extra disks for free :-) Julian..