raid 1 breaks at first boot using freebsd 8

paulfrottawa

paulfrottawa

I have being using raid (mirroring) as a primary and never had a problem. But now when it boots after an install I get a special notice about my raid configuration and content will be lost press c.

I tried it 3 times.

I have reloaded 7.2 until I have an ide drive available instead.
 
Is this an external RAID array (seeing as you posted this in 'Peripheral Hardware')? Some details about the hardware (type, # of disks, type of RAID) are probably in order.
 
This is a raid set up by the bios. I press the TAB button when it first boots and create it there. Then I tell my bios to boot raid as first boot device.

This has been my method on most of my computers using freebsd. Its just freebsd8 making trouble.
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PS: I lost count on where I posted this and that's why I took a few days to re post.
 
This is Pseudo-RAID or FakeRAID, aka "Don't use this RAID". :)

You'll need to load the ataraid kernel module, and hope that it supports the metadata on the drives. You'll still see the individual harddrives, but you'll also have an ar device, which is the "RAID" array.

However, you really, really, really shouldn't be using this.

Instead, use gmirror(8) for RAID1. It's more portable, better supported, and will give better performance.
 
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