From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 8 11:19:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4438616A422 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:19:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from etc@fluffles.net) Received: from auriate.fluffles.net (a83-68-3-169.adsl.cistron.nl [83.68.3.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72AE43D45 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:19:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from etc@fluffles.net) Received: from destiny ([10.0.0.21]) by auriate.fluffles.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FGwhD-000Pia-FT for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:19:11 +0100 Message-ID: <440EBDCF.7090309@fluffles.net> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:19:43 +0100 From: Fluffles User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060123) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Can't get nForce4 SATA RAID working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:19:13 -0000 Anyone can help me please? -------- Original Message -------- Hi guys! I hope you can help me with this, i've been at it for hours now. I want to use my RAID array (striping or mirroring) for FreeBSD. But the problem is: it doesn't work properly. My config: Asrock K8NF4G-SATA2 - nVidia GeForce 6100 chipset - nVidia nForce 410 MCP - Socket 939 2 * Hitachi 160GB SATA drives My problem: when i boot with FreeBSD 6.0-i386 i get: pci0: at device 14.0 (no driver attached) when i boot with FreeBSD 6.1-beta3-i386, after seeing "ad4" the system gets locked. When i boot in Safe Mode, it succesfully boots but i do see: ad4: 157066MB at ata2-master SATA150 stray irq7 ar0: WARNING - mirror protection lost. RAID1 array in DEGRADED mode ar0: 157066MB status: DEGRADED ar0: disk0 DOWN no device found for this subdisk ar0: disk1 READY using ad4 at ata2-master It's not degraded though, it just does not detect the second disk. Instead, the message "stray irq7" gets printed. I think something is going wrong here, a small bug, which prevents from detecting BOTH drives. According to ataraid manpage, the nForce4 "MediaShield" onboard RAID driver should be supported. Could this be a bug in FreeBSD? I have tested TWO mainboards (same type) and two different HDDs (maxtor/hitachi) and different SATA cables. In Windows the RAID array works fine! So this *really* must be a software issue. The only thing i haven't tried yet is updating my BIOS. Anyone has any suggestions? Thanks a lot!! - Veronica