From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 08:42:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D5B8B16A474 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:42:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch) Received: from mail.attiksystem.ch (f29.attiksystem.ch [212.147.59.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6093243D5A for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:42:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch) Received: from poweredge.attiksystem.ch (poweredge.attiksystem.ch [10.0.0.29]) by mail.attiksystem.ch (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5L8gidF001672 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:42:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6603.0 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:42:44 +0200 Message-ID: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0E3F@poweredge.attiksystem.ch> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? Thread-Index: AcaTml0aO6mRpUdjTomBSIsQLMEZOQA61I9AACH/U4A= From: "Philippe Lang" To: "freebsd-questions" X-Spam-Score: -1.44 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.49 on 10.0.0.111 Subject: RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:42:48 -0000 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