Hello I have used the PERC on dells 2900 & 2950
they are trick pieces of hardware and can easyly wipe out the contents of your disk drive on the CTRL-R screen (setup screen). the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid) on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use the mirror in software) mainly because the Freebsd kernel is, in this manner, can detect problems with the drivers and so, can act on it.... so........ 1) attach a new drive on your controller (this drive will be erased...) 2) put the drive in another VD (on the control-r screen).... 3) attach the drive... 4) format it in the running freebsd.... 5) put your data on the drive (using tar....) 6) shutdown the computer, save the drive.... 7) mount the other drivers using raid-0 8) re-install freebsd using g-mirror (see freebsd documentation...) 9) remount the saved drive on the controller now using the Foreing option 10) boot freebsd, mount the drive restore the sistem and be happy.... Hope that it can help _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
