Its better to enable, but AD4 can get renamed to ada0
but it's easy to fix (when reboot keep a 2nd computer handy to google the solution) you just need to edit the /etc/fstab to point to the newly named drives .. > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:36:11 +0200 > From: d...@nagual.nl > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: AHCI driver > > I'm told it would be better to enable the AHCI driver form my SATA2 > drives. It would make ZFS perform better on them. From the release notes > I get: > > FreeBSD cam(3) > <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE> > > SCSI framework has been improved and a new kernel option |option > ATA_CAM| has been added. This turns ata(4) > <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE> > > controller drivers into cam(4) > <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE> > > interface modules. When enabled, this option deprecates all ata(4) > <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE> > > peripheral drivers and interfaces such as ad and acd, and allows cam(4) > <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE> > > drivers ada, and cd and interfaces to be natively used instead. Note > that this is not enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel. > > Is it really better to enable AHCI driver? > > Will I be able to GEOM label normal disks (like /dev/ad0) or do I need > /dev/ada0 drives for that? > > Thanks for any help / advice on this matter. I'm building the server and > want to do things right from the start. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
