Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:56:06 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: John <comp.john@googlemail.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Varan Okul <varanokul@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 Message-ID: <d36406631003310356m4361e5dek15d1a36ec6ab4155@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6201873e1003301813o32024529s8dae620af17b87db@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e1003290739t588ae242gef92d14e9d889749@mail.gmail.com> <d36406631003290857v56b3b2b9g1539c9009a636fe8@mail.gmail.com> <20100329172352.GA85779@potato> <SNT141-w209EE090DAC38DF33981EAB81F0@phx.gbl> <20100331005639.GA91332@potato> <6201873e1003301813o32024529s8dae620af17b87db@mail.gmail.com>
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On 31 March 2010 02:13, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John <comp.john@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Hi, thanks for your input. >> >> I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot >> from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? >> >> What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't >> select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could >> just use zfs for raid functionality. >> >> Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. >> Maybe this is what it's for? >> -- >> John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com >> OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop >> GPG: 0xF08A33C5 >> > > Your best bet would be to configure the drives as JBOD and see if it > detects the disks. Post dmesg from that. > > -- > Adam Vande More > we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. We are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the next chasis.
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