From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 18:06:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F220316A41C for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 18:06:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from giromide@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A98243D1F for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 18:06:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from giromide@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 70so874548wra for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 11:06:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=qQzpJKxa4FQvEDqZNkdztUDCXZT2uYk0jE7n/BYAWSL8lWSB9kXmcwQ0EHtn4gqcmagFZyaWklc4HlEQ3sAAicx0pGvs+1u2HomOa+kEyyX7csjlqABix7Z1K09pVaQv7O07aChqClcsaAkQrKG//0uCPW5WVl4qi7yFZAoN+kw= Received: by 10.54.51.17 with SMTP id y17mr1086358wry; Thu, 26 May 2005 11:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.110.1 with HTTP; Thu, 26 May 2005 11:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:06:23 -0500 From: Derek Giromini To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Mirroring Disks with Intel ICH5-R SATA 82081ER X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Derek Giromini List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 18:06:25 -0000 Greetings-- I preface this with an admission this is my first ever attempt to successfully install FreeBSD. I am attempting to install 5.4 on a 1U with an Intel ICH5-R SATA RAID controller for the purpose of running mirrored disks. I've dug up a recent exchange about RAID-1 (mirror): > Should work just fine with the integrated ICH5R if you CVSUP to=20 > -CURRENT. sos@ has done major work to the ata code recently and I have=20 > many of this exact machine up and running right now. I had to: >=20 > Enable SATA RAID in the BIOS but define no raid > Install FreeBSD on ad4 (or the first disk) > CVSUP to current and rebuild kernel > edit your fstab and change all the ad4 (or whatever disk you installed=20 > on) entries to ar0 > go into RAID BIOS and create a RAID from the first drive >=20 > When it asks you how to create the array, choose Build and it'll copy=20 > your first drive to the second drive, creating a mirror. >=20 > reboot your machine and it should 'just work' > -Sam I couldn't determine which version of FreeBSD was discussed, so I just modified the fstab and RAID, but I could never get the disk to boot. I reinstalled, then cvsup all CURRENT code only to break the kernel rebuild as the headers were out of whack. Is there some way a could rebuild the kernel without taking everything CURRENT since 5.4? Perhaps I am not getting the code correctly or am not building the kernel correctly. I am following the documentation online. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers --Derek