From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 25 13:40:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6154716A47E for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:40:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellyl@sysrq.ca) Received: from mail.sysrq.ca (orion.sysrq.ca [69.54.212.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D444C43D58 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:40:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kellyl@sysrq.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.sysrq.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745D0EBC27; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:40:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sysrq.ca Received: from mail.sysrq.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (orion.sysrq.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Et9fja5KyBMY; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:40:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from calypso (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.sysrq.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id C7C18EBC25; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:40:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004801c6f83b$2599e780$6500a8c0@calypso> From: "Kelly Lesperance" To: "Eugene Orlov" , References: <1953532030.20061025111413@big12.ru> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:40:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Cc: Subject: Re: Trouble with HP Proliant DL145 G2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:40:48 -0000 Hi Eugene, > Hi, All! > > Some time ago I got a new HP Proliant DL 145 G2 with 2 SATA disks. > During its first boot I saw that it doesn't support hardware array, > but there was a message on the screen 'nVivia IDE RAID' or something > like that and the next message was about having an array of 2 disks. > > So I was to involve using GMIRROR with my FreeBSD 6.1 box. And > recently, after cold power off, one of its disks failed. So the fact > of the matter is to find out, is there a hardware RAID 1 support or > not and if not what is the messages shown above? At first I thought the chipset (nForce Pro) used for the DL145 G2 supports nVidia's RAID, but HP chose not to implement it. HP doesn't list RAID capability in any of the documentation, and I was never able to access a utility to configure it. Now that I research it a bit further, it seems somewhat more complicated. It looks as though nvRAID might be some kind of fake RAID, which is a kind of quasi hardware/software RAID. Basic functionality is incorporated into the hardware, but other functions are performed by the driver. You can find some info here http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#nvidia and here http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#fakeraid. It sounds as though you'd be better served by implementing your own RAID rather than using the nvRAID, which is fortunate, since nVidia hasn't released FreeBSD drivers anyway. Hope that helps, Kelly Lesperance