Greetings, FreeBSD appears to have issues installing to an ATA drive/device (UDMA) - see the: ATA DMA issues - are there problems lurking in 7.1? thread for more detail. I've been using FreeBSD for a few years on several Tyan Serverworks Thunder LE-T boards (S2518UGN) on the embeded SCSI (Adaptec) ports w/o any problem. But recently purchased a couple of UDMA166 drives to install FBSD to. This proved to be impossible. Installation proceeded w/o incident, but using it proved impossible due to "timeout" messages that ultimately resulted in failure. So, I now find myself in need of striping several SCSI drives to achieve the capacity required to achieve the desired install base. But as yet there is no option to create/install to (software) RAID in the FreeBSD install. I've done /much/ searching on the topic. All the reading I've done from the results found have left me with more questions, than answers. Has anyone created a (pre)install CD that facilitates this process? The closest I've discovered is: http://www.freenas.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 (FreeNAS). But the documentation for the "SoftwareRAID" is out of date, and I was unable to register on their Forum. Is there a good article/recipe that anyone knows of for creating/installing FreeBSD to RAID0? The closest articles I could find were: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/installation.html
and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-striping.html this one was good, but I wasn't sure how to do this from the install CD, and it appears to presume that a system is already installed. lastly, I found this one: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ I apologize in advance should this been better posted somewhere else, but I'm already subscribed to this list, and it involves problems installing 7 - or any other release on an ATA device. Thank you for all your time and consideration. Sincerely, Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
