I just tried installing 4.2-BETA (5/11/2000) and it exhibited the same
problem (ar0 was detected by the kernel but wouldn't show up in sysinstall).

Trying -CURRENT for the same date, it shows in sysinstall, but fails to
create the devices for the partitions, so installation is impossible.

As a stopgap, I ended up installing onto another hard drive, partitioning
and labelling ar0, copying everything from the original drive to the raid
array, the removing the original drive. This seems to work, but is a total
pain. I hope sysinstall gets fixed before 4.2 is released.

--
Alastair D'Silva
Networking Consultant
New Millennium Networking

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Faulhaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ivan Debn�r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: ATA RAID HPT370 - problem installing


<snip>
> >
> > The drive is correctly found, but the sysinstall doesn't pick it up and
> > doesn't offer me to partition the drive, it only suggests ad4 and ad6
> > as available drives.
> >
> > Has anyone else exhibit this problem? In the source code of sysinstal
> > (devices.c), these is ar0 - ATA RAID mentioned as DISK DRIVE, but it
> > doesn't seem to get to use it.
> >
>
> According to:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/sysinstall/devices.c
>
> Soren added the ar device to sysinstall on Mon Oct 30 17:30:28 2000 UTC,
> which might not have made it onto the Nov 1 snapshot.  Can you try a
> newer shapshot when it becomes available?
>
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