From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Dec 15 16: 1: 5 2000 From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 16:01:04 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from evilcode.com (evilcode.com [63.228.228.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2D0E37B400 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:01:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 85144 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Dec 2000 00:01:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:01:02 -0800 From: James To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Promise FASTtrak66/RAID1 working? Message-ID: <20001215160102.A84096@evilcode.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: daemus@evilcode.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I understand that FreeBSD 4.2 (and before) does not support the Promise FASTtrak66 in a RAID setup. But being one that likes to see things for himself, I tried it out. When I was doing the install, and I got to the disk partitioning part, it gave me 3 choices: ad4, ad6, and ar0. Remembering that I saw it mention the ar0 as the RAID card when it booted, I tried this device out.. and I saw 30GB of space when I was creating the slice; something that one would expect when the RAID1 setup works.. but my understanding about this card is that it only works as a regular IDE controller, and none of the RAID features are useable in FreeBSD. And I also looked in the LINT kernel config file to see what ar0 was supposed to be, and found that it's description is "Arnet SYNC/570i hdlc sync 2/4 port V.35/X.21 serial driver (requires sppp)". Now I'm really confused about this. Why is my RAID1 configuration working at all? And why was this device seen as "ar0"? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message