I have not used RAID before.
I have a laptop (new to me) with windows 7 and RAID0.
I want to install 8.2-Release and retain the Raid0.
I booted the 8.2-Release AMD64 DVD and exited to Fixit.
pciconf -lv shows
atapci0@pci0:0:31:2: class=0x010400 card=0x159b103c chip=0x282a8086
rev=0x05
Hi--
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G),
ar0(RAID0)
I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'.
Which disk do I select for installation?
ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I would
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:26 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Hi--
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G),
ar0(RAID0)
I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'.
Which disk do I select
Umm, please don't inflict autoresponders upon people who answer your
questions...
Begin forwarded message:
From: tomd...@speakeasy.org
Date: July 19, 2011 11:27:28 AM PDT
To: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com
Subject: Re: Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0
I'm out of office
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:31 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Umm, please don't inflict autoresponders upon people who answer your
questions...
I don't know where this came from...
tomdean
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I booted the DVD to Fixit and used fdisk. The output is below.
It looks like, if I want to use ataraid, I install to ad4 and leave ad6
alone.
Correct?
I think I will try ataraid and see what happens.
To use gmirror, I do the same, correct?
tomdean
Fixit# fdisk ad4
*** Working on device
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:36:46 -0700
Thomas D. Dean articulated:
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:31 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Umm, please don't inflict autoresponders upon people who answer
your questions...
I don't know where this came from...
tomdean
I have been getting hit with these auto
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I would advise against using Intel's
Matrix pseudo-RAID for a boot volume,
Why?
I searched and did not find a reason to not use it. Just a few
recommend against it without reasons.
There's a set of
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:52 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
I discovered how to get to BIOS on the laptop. esc very early in the
power process brings up a menu. F10 gets in to BIOS.
One item, OROM UI enable/disable was disabled. Enabling this flashes
a menu for 2 sec on boot that allows ctrl-I to
On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
I still do not understand which disk to install to, ad4, ad6, or, ar0?
My original reply mentioned: ar0 is the RAID-0 volume.
Regards,
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On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 12:18 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
After some more reading and searching, I decided to not use ataraid.
I went into BIOS and deleted the RAID volume.
I am installing 8.2 on ad4 with a subsequent change to 8-stable.
After getting to 8-stable, I will look into setting up a
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