From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 11:13:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DC616A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:13:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from grover.logicsquad.net (ppp140-249.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.140.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7A9043D58 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:13:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paulh@logicsquad.net) Received: (qmail 72162 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Feb 2005 11:13:40 -0000 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:43:40 +1030 From: "Paul A. Hoadley" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050208111340.GJ1794@grover.logicsquad.net> References: <20050207052621.GA82561@grover.logicsquad.net> <20050207201234.GG25963@meer.net> <20050208041905.GE1794@grover.logicsquad.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="H8ygTp4AXg6deix2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050208041905.GE1794@grover.logicsquad.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: ASUS P5GD2: onboard SATA RAID support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:13:44 -0000 --H8ygTp4AXg6deix2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:49:05PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > The only disks in the system are two identical SATA drives which I > want to make into a RAID1 array. How can I bootstrap into this > setup using the atacontrol approach? I've installed onto ad4, but > just doing 'atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6' isn't going to > replicate this disk over to ad6 and make the resulting array > bootable, is it? Do I need a temporary third disk to boot from, set > up the array and then install onto that? I see the answer here is no. The approach is: - Install onto ad4 (or ad6). - Create ar0 using atacontrol. - Reinstall and ar0 will be offered as a destination disk. > I don't mind waiting a while until this code: >=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-February/046006.h= tml On this point, would I be better off waiting until ata(4) can recognise the ICH6 metadata and restart the process using a BIOS-created RAID1 array, or is the ata driver-based RAID1 array created above just as robust? --=20 Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ --H8ygTp4AXg6deix2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCCJ7k730Z/jysbzIRArfKAJ9lkIU10QI8Mw4vBiqj+4o4RI3xpwCeOO4W w0Pi5RgS5esy808S+AAdotY= =2TeK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H8ygTp4AXg6deix2--