From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 15:11:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658B337B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:11:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-56339.0x50c6aa0a.abnxx2.customer.tele.dk [80.198.170.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D75843E4A for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:11:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.5/8.12.6) id gAQNBMM8011337; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:11:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soeren Schmidt Message-Id: <200211262311.gAQNBMM8011337@spider.deepcore.dk> Subject: Re: ATA RAID Highpoint RR 133 In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20021126211316.02bb9508@mail.go2france.com> To: Len Conrad Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:11:22 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL98b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 It seems Len Conrad wrote: > DMESG with a 4.7R GENERIC kernel shows for our Rocketraid 133: > > atapci1: port > 0x8400-0x84ff,0x8800-0x8803,0x9000-0x9007,0x9400-0x9403,0x9800-0x9807 irq > 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 > > But we have nice Highpoint doc "FreeBSD INstallation Guide" where it talks > about installing their drivers, up to fsbd 4.7, via loader.conf. > > They say "sysctl hpt37x2.status" and other systcl params are available. I dont know much about Highpoints driver, I've newer used it nor looked at the code... > We are confused about the GENERIC support vs. what we are supposed to do > with the Highpoint FreeBSD driver, etc. > > Also, is there any shell command to check the status of the mirroring for > disk loss via GENERIC support? ie, does the GENERIC ata raid driver do > logging to anywhere? It gets logged to the console if it fails, but it would be very easy to add a sysctl or ioctl to tell.. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message