Since it was my "first day" (read first message sent to the list), if I
could use words of one Homer Simpson, I managed to screw it up. My
message was a reply to this message
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-September/059812.html),
but somehow it does not appear to be
I am not sure if you are still having this problem, but maybe somebody
else will be able to use the following:
I am using SuperMicro server with Intel ICH5 SATA 150 controller and
FreeBSD 5.4. As far as I could tell, the trick with SATA RAID is to
disable/delete RAID in the Intel (after-BIOS)
I installed FreeBSD 5.3 Beta 6 today on an Intel s875wp1-e server board. I
enabled RAID on the ICH5 SATA ports. Using its BIOS, I built a 2 drive
mirror.
FreeBSD saw both the native disks (ad4 and ad6). I installed to ad4.
I ran "atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6". It said ar0 was created.
Now I'm