Re: Silicon Image SIL680 RAID Controller
From: Steve O'Hara-Smith (steveo_at_eircom.net)
Date: 07/01/04
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:31:54 +0100
On 30 Jun 2004 14:01:11 -0700
freddydynip@yahoo.com (Fred Jones) wrote:
> Steve,
> Just so I'm clear...So you have 1 IDE hard drive on each of the
> SIL680's connectors (each drive configured as MASTER) and 3
> CD-ROM/DVDs on the motherboard's 2 IDE controller connectors?
No, I have one IDE hard drive on one of the motherboard connectors,
one optical on the other, and one optical on each of the SIL680 connectors.
There's no RAID on this box at all.
> Unfortunately, until I solve the RAID configuration issue, I can't
> install BSD to read the man pages. I read in another message where
You can read them online at www.freebsd.org.
As for how to get up and running, the trick is that you have to
install FreeBSD twice. First you install it on one of the discs (do a minimal
install), boot it, create the RAID array with atacontrol (all this really does
is record the RAID metadata), then reinstall this time on ar0.
You could probably use a live CD image to good effect instead of
two installs if you have one to hand.
> I'm only using the SIL680 because I thought I needed a hardware RAID
> controller. Do you mean I can configure RAID1 with the two IDE drives
> connected directly to the motherboard's IDE controller (sans the
> SIL680)?
Yes you can.
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