Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:42:44 +0200 From: "Philippe Lang" <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? Message-ID: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0E3F@poweredge.attiksystem.ch>
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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I wasn't as lucky as Doug with my ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe board, > both with the ICH5R and Promise RAID controller. >=20 > 1) With the Promise controller, after simulating a disk > problem (shutdown - disk disconnection - reboot - shutdown - > disk reconnection - reboot), I wasn't able to rebuild the > array at all, either with "atacontrol rebuild ar0" or from > the bios. I suspect a spare disk is necessary for a complete rebuild. >=20 > 2) With the ICH5R controller, installation went fine too. If > I disconnect a disk, the system still boots, but when I plug > the disk back (computer shut down), no boot is possible > anymore. At boot, a kernel panic says: > "softdep_setup_inomapdep". No array rebuild is possible from > the bios, so I'm stuck. >=20 >=20 > I use freebsd 6.1 RELEASE, with the latest BIOS for the > motherboard, and > 2 SATA 1.0 Western Digital 160GB disks. I'm trying to > configure RAID 1. >=20 > I'm surprised I have so many problems. Am I doing anything > wrong? With INTEL hardware controllers for SCSI disks, I > never had any problems until now. Does anyone successfully > use another ASUS board, and is able to rebuild the array, > without rebooting? >=20 > Thanks for your time, I have made some further tests with another ASUS board, with an INTEL ICH7R chipset. Installation of FreeBSD 6.1 went fine. I shut down the computer, disconnect a disk, reboot, and... And no reboot at all. Kernel panic. The ar raid driver seems to be very buggy... I'm looking forward to receiving my 3WARE RAID controllers... --------------- Philippe Lang Attik System
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