[PC-BSD Testing] New Alpha 08-08-2008 available!

[Yvan Martin]

Brian,

out of curiosity are any/all of your sata disks in a RAID array? I had 
unending problems with most OSes using this and I finally gave up using 
nvidia RAID (I originally had two groups of two mirrored drives). As a 
matter of fact, one of my disks is still detected both as a single drive 
and as a degraded RAID array (this after breaking the mirrored arrays at 
the BIOS level and even reformatting the drives). I hope this does not 
play a role in your install issue.

I have found nVidia RAID not to be worth the trouble.

Brian wrote:
>  Thanks Kris . I'm getting off a night shift , so I'll do this tonight 
> when my brain is functional . :) I had problems setting up WindozeXP as 
> well - I needed to load sata raid drivers onto a floppy to start the 
> install process . I would have thought that XP would have drivers for an 
> nvidia main board , but I guess not . Oddly enough , my most trouble 
> free install was the Gentoo based Sayabon DVD .
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