Yes this what I tried , just a question shouldn't it be good idea to add ability use 
atacontrol from sysinstall ? ( lets say if I have two normal disks ad0 and ad2 and I 
want to use them in stripe configuration ? ) without downloading fixit cd image that 
not possible, because on fixit floppy there is no atacontrol...

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From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Putinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 18:18 PM
Subject: Re: sata stripe & dual boot


> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Putinas wrote:
> 
> > Just a quick question, I have setup SATA stripe from two disks, and I have
> > 3 partitions 4Gb each and the rest for data storing. If I boot in freebsd
> > from cdrom, I see two empty disks ad4 and ad6 and I guess if I create
> > something I will mess up with my raid setup.
> 
> How did you set up the stripe?  It sounds like your SATA RAID controller's
> format is not currently supported.
> 
> > Only one way what I could think off it would be to use atacontrol
> > _before_ the installation to create exactly same stripe, and probably
> > then I would see real filesystems on ar0. Or maybe there is any other
> > way of easy ( or not ) doing this ?
> 
> 1. Boot into sysinstall and drop into fixit mode with the CD. That gets
> you atacontrol. Atacontrol away.
> 2. Reboot and sysinstall should see your ar* devices.
> 
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