Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:11:21 -0800 (PST) From: ThinkDifferently <Jeremy@FutureCIS.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Is it possible to make a bootable RAID on AMD 700 series chipset? Message-ID: <21506446.post@talk.nabble.com>
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Specifically, I have a motherboard with the South Bridge AMD SB700 chipset for I/O and RAID support. This RAID requires a driver to be loaded at boot time (from the "ok" prompt) before the OS loads to recognize the RAID. I'm trying to install the FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE onto a RAID-1 (Mirror) using this chipset. 1) Is there a driver available in FreeBSD for this chipset (either natively or externally; if external, where)? 2) Once I make a mirror and install an OS onto it, can I make it bootable? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Note, I'm not a hacker, but nor am I a noob. My motherboard is Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H. I've already determined that FreeBSD does install and run well on it (and only the 7.1 release supports the 8111C onboard Ethernet LAN chipset). However, I have no clue how to do motherboard-based RAID with a boot-time driver in FreeBSD. My attempts at using a RocketRAID PCI card failed...something about it interfering with the onboard RAID chipset (even if it's disabled). I cannot boot from the RocketRAID, but that was a different thread entirely. My main focus with this thread is can I get a FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE bootable mirror on the SB700 chipset? Unfortunately, I didn't find anything on the FreeBSD.Org site regarding SB700. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-it-possible-to-make-a-bootable-RAID-on-AMD-700-series-chipset--tp21506446p21506446.html Sent from the freebsd-hardware mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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