Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:18:39 -0400 From: Bob Bomar <bob@ibsd.us> To: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need advice on building a system with a Raid drive Message-ID: <20050713161839.GA72758@chaos.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <20050713152313.GA1679@freeze.org> References: <20050713152313.GA1679@freeze.org>
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:23:13AM -0500, Jim Freeze wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> I am building a new system and plan to use two=20
> 300GB drives in a raid 1 configuration. However,
> I have read where fbsd can't boot from a raid
> drive, but it is not clear why.
>=20
> Can anyone confirm if this is a valid restriction?
> Will I really need a boot drive separate from my
> raid drives?
>=20
I have 3 machines that boot from RAID 1 just fine, 1 uses
a Promise RAID Card, FastTrak 100 with 2 Hot Swap Enclosures,=20
and the other 2 use the promise raid on the motherboards, one
is a MSI, other is Gigabyte.
I like the promise cards, as atacontrol(8) works great
with them.
dmesg from my server:
Drives:
ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
ar0: 113487MB <ATA RAID1 array> [14467/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad4: 114440MB <WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0> [232514/16/63] at ata2-master =
UDMA3
3
ad4: SuperSwap enclosure [FAN:3879rpm TEMP:29.0C 5.103V 12.383V]
1 READY ad6: 114440MB <WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0> [232514/16/63] at ata3-master =
UDMA3
3
ad6: SuperSwap enclosure [FAN:4166rpm TEMP:28.0C 5.049V 12.261V]
ar1: 76293MB <ATA RAID1 array> [9726/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad8: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00CRA1> [155061/16/63] at ata4-master UD=
MA100
1 READY ad10: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00CRA1> [155061/16/63] at ata5=
-mast
er UDMA100
Waiting 2 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ar0s1a
da0 at isp0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
da0: <IBM DCAS-34330W S60B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device=20
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit)
da0: 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C
Cards:
atapci1@pci0:12:0: class=3D0x010485 card=3D0x1275105a chip=3D0x5275105=
a rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00
vendor =3D 'Promise Technology Inc'
device =3D 'PDC20276 Ultra133 TX2/FastTrak TX Lite EIDE Controller'
class =3D mass storage
subclass =3D RAID
atapci0@pci0:6:0: class=3D0x010485 card=3D0x4d68105a chip=3D0x6268105=
a rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x00
vendor =3D 'Promise Technology Inc'
device =3D 'PDC20268R FastTrak100 TX2/TX4/LP EIDE controller'
class =3D mass storage
subclass =3D RAID
--=20
Bob Bomar
bob@ibsd.us
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