Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:14:08 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1 Message-ID: <440ED8A0.7080100@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <440ED214.9000802@locolomo.org> References: <440EA3A9.8030809@locolomo.org> <440EC624.3030802@dial.pipex.com> <440ED214.9000802@locolomo.org>
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Erik Norgaard wrote: > Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > >> If the controller is supported, then it should "just work", but >> unless there is a CLI which works for FreeBSD then you won't be able >> to do things like rebuild the RAID from within FreeBSD, only from its >> BIOS. >> >> It looks like the controller is supported by the aac driver so check >> the manpage for that. It answers your last question ;-) > > > Thanks, yes, it seems like it "just works" :) but I can't find any CLI > to manage it, the man-page for aac doesn't refer to one such and > atacontrol doesn't work :( are there other CLI's? I thought the manpage referred to "linux management utilities" or some such. This is from 5.4 > The /dev/aac? device nodes provide access to the management > interface of > the controller. One node exists per installed card. The aliases > /dev/afa? and /dev/hpn? exist for compatibilty with the Dell and > HP ver- > sions of management tools, respectively. If the kernel is > compiled with > the COMPAT_LINUX option, or the aac_linux.ko and linux.ko modules are > loaded, the Linux-compatible ioctl(2) interface for the > management device > will be enabled and will allow Linux-based management applications to > control the card. So whatever utilities Dell(?) provide should work. You should be able to find those on the manufacturer's website and maybe even in the ports. cd /usr/ports && make search name=aac finds this: > Port: aaccli-1.0 > Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/aaccli > Info: Adaptec SCSI RAID administration tool > Maint: bms@FreeBSD.org > B-deps: > R-deps: > WWW: http://support.dell.com/ which looks like what you want. --Alex
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