Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Steve Franks
dmesg gives me: atapci1: port 0xec00-0xec0f,0xe880-0xe887,0xe800-0xe80f,0xe480-0xe487,0xe400-0xe41f mem 0xd800-0xdbff irq 21 at device 31.1 on pci0 Two pairs of drives are identical in terms of partitions, and no ar0 devices found, So I'd guess I have one of those "crappy software raid'

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Apatewna
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: Forging ahead, I get ready to start playing the mounting game, but lo-and-behold, suddenly I have 4 disks whereas in windows I had two. Now I praise FreeBSD for it's superior intellect here, but now I have a problem. I want two 160G

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:33:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's > > strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay > > again?

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:35:06AM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: > > [snip] > > > Real hardware RAID chips/cards tend to be expensive, > > proprietary, don't require an OS driver and include a battery backup > > system for data in the

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: [snip] > Real hardware RAID chips/cards tend to be expensive, > proprietary, don't require an OS driver and include a battery backup > system for data in the RAID cache should the system lose power. I don't know what I was thinking,

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:33:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's > strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay > again? they can keep their OS). > > Problem is, I've got 320GB of accumulated

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Steve Franks wrote: > I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones. The RAID is an > ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard. Very nice setup > for the money. I don't know about the chipset or the controller, but judging from the symptoms it's highly likely you act

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Franks
I suppose a couple of other details are in order: 1. FreeBSD is installed on a completely different disk. 2. I checked, and the motherboard still thinks they are mirrored. Steve On 1/16/07, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opini

hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Franks
I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay again? they can keep their OS). Problem is, I've got 320GB of accumulated detrius on ntfs volumes to migrate. I see there is some good r/w port