Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:00:11 -0500 From: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Mark Kirkwood" <markir@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Promise TX2200/2300 SATA RAID Controllers - New Driver/BIOS Problem Message-ID: <1141992011.7658.256300397@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <44115B1C.3020703@paradise.net.nz> References: <1141907076.25030.256207540@webmail.messagingengine.com> <44115B1C.3020703@paradise.net.nz>
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:55:24 +1300, "Mark Kirkwood" <markir@paradise.net.nz> said: > Jud wrote: > > > Another oddity: The Promise BIOS allows a stripe size of 128kB, but > > after running "atacontrol create raid0 250 ad4 ad6," the BIOS shows a > > stripe size of 64kB (the default) on bootup. > > I think you need to do "atacontrol create raid0 256 ad4 ad6" (assuming > "250" isn't a typo) - 250 is not a valid stripe size, so I guess the > array firmware is falling back on the default of 128. Thanks, made the error (all too familiar in my case) of calculating 128,000 bytes = 128kB. Jud
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