Solved: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: So whatever utilities Dell(?) provide should work. You should be able to find those on the manufacturer's website and maybe even in the ports. cd /usr/ports && make search name=aac finds this: Port: aaccli-1.0 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/aaccli Info: Adaptec SCSI RAI

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erik Norgaard wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: If the controller is supported, then it should "just work", but unless there is a CLI which works for FreeBSD then you won't be able to do things like rebuild the RAID from within FreeBSD, only from its BIOS. It looks like the controller is supporte

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: If the controller is supported, then it should "just work", but unless there is a CLI which works for FreeBSD then you won't be able to do things like rebuild the RAID from within FreeBSD, only from its BIOS. It looks like the controller is supported by the aac driver so c

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I am new on RAID, I googled a bit on how to install freebsd with RAID-1. But I found mostly references to software raid, and I have a CERC SATA RAID controler (6 channel). Is this because hardware RAID-1 "Just Works (TM)"? or how do I make sure that my raid is actual

Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I am new on RAID, I googled a bit on how to install freebsd with RAID-1. But I found mostly references to software raid, and I have a CERC SATA RAID controler (6 channel). Is this because hardware RAID-1 "Just Works (TM)"? or how do I make sure that my raid is actually used and not just o