From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 14:23:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.home.nl (mail3.home.nl [213.51.129.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE50137B401 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 14:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wagner ([217.121.216.37]) by mail3.home.nl (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20020527212118.EUP24446.mail3.home.nl@wagner> for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 23:21:18 +0200 From: "Boyan Nedkov" To: "FreeBSD Questions Lists" Subject: RE: onboard RAID controller (Asus A7V333) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 23:23:04 +0200 Message-ID: <001801c205c4$b302a8a0$ab01a8c0@wagner> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: <20020527100310.02604ddd.jud@myrealbox.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the hope, Jud :-) It's good to hear that at least one system works in that mode I checked again all the stuff but I didn't find anything wrong, so could you pls give me some more details about your hardware/bios configuration, like: - do you have any other HDD's installed - HDD's are connected to Promise ports, or ... - HDD's are master/master or one is master, the other is slave - FBSD is the only OS, or ... - are there any special bios settings ?? - some other stuff I could miss ?? Please fill free to send me a personal mail in case you think that issue could be boring for the list Thanks, Boyan -- Boyan Nedkov bnedkov@home.nl > -----Original Message----- > From: Jud [mailto:jud@myrealbox.com] > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 4:03 PM > To: Boyan Nedkov > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: onboard RAID controller (Asus A7V333) > > > On Mon, 27 May 2002 15:07:41 +0200 > "Boyan Nedkov" wrote: > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.5 on a brain new hardware system > > based on Asus A7V333 motherboard (VIA VT8233A chipset, supporting > > UltraDMA 133/100/66/33), configured for using two equal 60GB hard > > disks as a RAID-0 disk storage. I've tested the system with > WinXP and > > it works fine. But trying to installing FreeBSD I get an > error message > > "No disk found ..." I checked the hardware documentation > and found out > > that the VIA VT8233A chipset is not supported jet, but perhaps > > somebody knows a workaround for such problem ??? > > If that chipset isn't supported yet, someone forgot to tell > my computer, which has the ASUS A7V333 mainboard with two > 40GB hard drives in RAID-0 configuration. I installed > 4.5-RELEASE on this system, which worked fine, and have been > following -STABLE regularly with cvsup, most recently last > night. The array is seen as ar0 with two subdisks, ad2 and > ad4. This is all done automagically (thanks to Soeren > Schmidt, I assume). > > If WinXP sees your RAID-0 array as one disk, it sounds like > you have the Promise BIOS installed - correct? I really > can't think what else could be causing the problem, so > someone smarter than I am will have to help find the > solution. For whatever help it is, though, FreeBSD does work > with your mainboard. > > Jud > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message