SATA RAID 1 controllers for Intel board

[darren david]

Sam-

Thanks for your reply on this comment -- this is /exactly/ what i'm
hoping to do, finally taking advantage of my onboard ICH5R-based RAID. 
However, my situation is that i've already got FreeBSD installed and 
running without having enabled the SATA RAID. If i enable it, do i run 
the risk of nuking my boot drive?

Thanks in advance,
darren


> Should work just fine with the integrated ICH5R if you CVSUP to 
> -CURRENT. sos@ has done major work to the ata code recently and I have 
> many of this exact machine up and running right now. I had to:
> 
> Enable SATA RAID  in the BIOS but define no raid
> Install FreeBSD on ad4 (or the first disk)
> CVSUP to current and rebuild kernel
> edit your fstab and change all the ad4 (or whatever disk you installed 
> on) entries to ar0
> go into RAID BIOS and create a RAID from the first drive
> 
> When it asks you how to create the array, choose Build and it'll copy 
> your first drive to the second drive, creating a mirror.
> 
> reboot your machine and it should 'just work'
>    -Sam