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Date:      Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:04:43 -0400
From:      jstarng <jstarng@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: onboard sata raid & freebsd 5.4 need help
Message-ID:  <2d3ab026050909140469af253@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2d3ab02605090913122ef62b3f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2d3ab02605090913122ef62b3f@mail.gmail.com>

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*mans atacontrol

then types: atacontrol RAID0 512 ad4 ad6

wowwy...

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now will i have to do this each time i reboot or is there something i can d=
o=20
in fstab or something to have it start the raid automatically?

On 9/9/05, jstarng <jstarng@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> I have the OS installed on an IDE and i want to add two drives for RAID-0=
=20
> striping (1 large drive).
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> They are two 200GB maxtor SATA HDD's
>=20
> i plugged them in, and used the bios utility to create the array.
>=20
> when i start Freebsd i can see the MB's onboard controller listed in dmes=
g=20
> as:
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> atapci0 <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> port blah blah blah irq 20 at devic=
e=20
> 15.0 on pci0
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> but then later it lists the drives seperately:
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> ad4: 194481MB <Maxtor 6L200M0/BANC1G10> [395136/16/63] at ata2-master=20
> SATA150
> ad6: 194481MB <Maxtor 6L200M0/BANC1G10> [395136/16/63] at ata2-master=20
> SATA150
>=20
> so i'm a little confused. was the raid array created? if so how do i get=
=20
> freebsd to view it as one drive because when i fdisk to create the=20
> partitions, i see both drives listed seperately. and if the array was not=
=20
> created, can someone please point me in the right direction?
>=20
> i'm not finding much with google/freebsd handbook.
>



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