Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:29:08 -0600 From: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: SATA, RAID and AHCI Message-ID: <200808252229.08969.af300wsm@gmail.com>
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Hi, As I mentioned in response to a thread started by someone wanting drivers for a Realtek 8111c NIC, I'm building a server for our church. We purchased an ASUS motherboard, M3A78 PRO (in case it matters or anyone cares). Everyone is already aware of FreeBSD's lack of driver support for the RTL8111c NIC which, unfortunately, is embedded on this MOBO. This question is about the storage settings for this board (ASUS' name for it is "Storage Configuration"). In the CMOS (or whatever it's called these days, just out of curiousity, will FreeBSD support things like OpenBoot or UEFI on i386, sorry for the digression), I found where to turn the "Storage Configuration," as ASUS calls it, from "IDE," to "RAID," or "AHCI." It's currently set to "IDE" because when set to RAID the MOBO apparently kept trying to put the SATA DVD drive as part of the RAID and when set to AHCI mode the install had hundreds of, "can't create symlink, no inodes free," during the copying of the files into the newly created file systems. Now, I'm a complete neophyte to making these SATA RAID systems. What's the magic to making it work, and how do you keep the DVD drive from being part of the RAID? Also, what should be done for AHCI mode? It looked as though in this mode the drives would perform *much* faster. Thanks, Andy
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