On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Indunil Jayasooriya
<induni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> See if you can switch it to a standard AHCI/SATA mode in the bios.
>>
>>
>      I switched to AHCI/SATA mode in BIOS. OpenBSD 5.5 64 bit Detected
>      BOTH HARD DISKS. So I installed it.
>
>      I now have 2 TB. On first disk, I partitioned  /, swap , /usr and /var
>     on the other 1 TB hard disk, I just partitioned 50 GB /home. many more
> GB remaining on the 2 nd Hard Drive.  Now, My favourite Operating System
> Open BSD is running.
>
> Now,  I want to let you know the most important thing.
>
> This is it.
>
> We got this server with 2 x 1 TB  hard disks. Because we want a mirrored
> Hard drive with 1 TB. But We got it WITHOUT getting it mirrored.
>
> We can tell the Hardware vendor to mirror this 2 hard disks.
>
> My question is after mirroring, Will OpenBSD work or again will have to
> change BIOS settings ?
>
> Hope to hear from you.

Use softraid.

A couple of useful links:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/bioctl.8

http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/raid

Ciao,
David

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