From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 02:44:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8457016A4B3 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 02:44:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tonij.jolt.nu (as4-6-3.lk.bonet.se [217.215.176.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8859543FFD for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 02:44:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c4@jolt.nu) Received: from na.jolt.nu (na.nat.jolt.nu [10.0.0.2] (may be forged)) by tonij.jolt.nu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h8L9hv35077501; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:43:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from c4@jolt.nu) Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20030921113935.00b5c8c0@jolt.nu> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:43:51 +0200 To: "Torsten Jensen" From: Tobias In-Reply-To: <000101c37f71$251ebfb0$0200a8c0@toshiba> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HighPoint RocketRaid 454 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:44:11 -0000 I found out how to fix this, the problem is that they havn't developed the driver yet for the 454 card... But you can use 404 driver's but without Raid 5 support (the weird part is that they mention the driver in their online manual). http://rmd.mine.nu/~c4/hpt-driver/hpt374-5.0.ko copy the file to /modules/ and rename it to hpt374.ko Add it to /boot/loader.conf (this is the location in freebsd 4.8 atleast) hpt374_load="YES" When you reboot you will have them listed as da0 da1 da2... If you have an raid0 you'll have da0 that is the raid size... nifty And I get better speeds now... 50MB/s+ with 10% cpu used... abit much cpu usage but atleast it works At 14:17 2003-09-20 +0200, you wrote: >Hello Tobias, > >I have a RocketRaid 454 Controller. FreeBSD does not support the Raid >funktion or I've a Problem, but the Controller was correctly listed. I >use FreeBSD 5.0 and all Arrays (Mirror and Raid 5) was listed as normal >Drives (ad4 & ad5 ...). All Arrays was not listed. > >At www.highpoint-tech.com is no Driver for FreeBSD available. > >Now I search a Driver or a FreeBSD Kerneloption for this Card. >Have you everything read about this problem? > >Thanks > >Torsten Jensen > > >At 10-Sep-2003 16:24:53, Tobias wrote: > >Subject: HighPoint RocketRaid 454 > >From: Tobias > >Date: 10-Sep-2003 16:24:53 > > > >Hello, I know that this card has support in FreeBSD but I'm curious if > >anyone has used them under heavy load in a RAID-5 configuration. > > >We're thinking of equipping two of these cards with 8 120GB Hitachi >drives > >and run it in an RAID-5 array for video material. > > >The usual data streams will likely be 2-3 streams at about 5-20MB/s > >(totally) and I know that a single drive will handle that, but I'm >unsure > >if the HPT 454 is really stable in FreeBSD. > > >We'll be running this on a 4.8 installation. > > >Now to my questions... > >Is the HPT 454 card & driver production stable? > >Do you think that it will handle 60MB/s (read)? > >Has anyone had a drive failure with this card and successfully replaced >it > >while the system was running or am I placing my hopes too high?