Vanishing RAID?

From: Subhro (subhro.kar_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/28/04

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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:23:37 +0530

    Hi folks,

    This is a strange problem. I own a AMD Athlon 64 bit on a Asus K8V SE Deluxe
    motherboard. This motherboard has an onboard VIA SATA RAID controller. Two
    SATA hard drives (120G each) are connected in RAID-0. The already has an
    installation of Windows XP (32 bit edition) and the RAID works properly. It
    shows a net hard disk space of ~240G as expected.

    I tried to install FreeBSD adm64 (5.3-R) from the CD. But I am really
    surprised to see the installation utility detect the two hard disks
    separately. The strangest part is, the first hard disk shows the windows
    partitions, however the second hard disk shows empty.

    To cross check I disconnected the second Hard disk from the controller and
    windows refused to boot as expected. Could anyone guide me about what is
    happening out there and how I can make the RAID controller work under
    FreeBSD amd64?

    Regards
    S.

    Indian Institute of Information Technology
    Subhro Sankha Kar
    Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
    Salt Lake City
    PIN 700091
    India

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