On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Ben Stuyts wrote:
On 14 Jul 2004, at 02:12, Chris Foote wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Ben Stuyts wrote:
I am planning on building a FreeBSD server with a Supermicro 5013C-T 1U server. It has a Supermicro P4SCE motherboard, with a P4 of around 2.8 GHz, and 512MB or 1 GB memory. I am planning on adding two Western Digital Raptor 74 GB SATA drives in mirror.
The SATA RAID controller, although it provides a 'legacy' option which should expose the RAID as an ordinary device, doesn't work despite the fact that both disk drives' LEDs flash when RAID 1 is enabled ;-( The RAID isn't supported by almost any operating system.
So I'm not sure I understand fully: is there a way to connect the sata drives to the onboard ich5 controller, and make them work as separate (not raid) devices? In that case I could use vinum.
If you enable 'legacy' mode in the BIOS settings for the RAID, and select 'IDE' mode rather than 'RAID', then you end up with 2 simulated ata drives which you can access with any operating system:
ad0: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JD-00GBB0> [232581/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JD-00GBB0> [232581/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100
so you could use vinum on them.
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