From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 8 13:14:11 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 4C0A716A420 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:14:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from asmtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (asmtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7FC43D45 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:14:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [62.31.10.79] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FGyUT-0003VF-41; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:14:09 +0000 Message-ID: <440ED8A0.7080100@dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:14:08 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060305 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Norgaard References: <440EA3A9.8030809@locolomo.org> <440EC624.3030802@dial.pipex.com> <440ED214.9000802@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <440ED214.9000802@locolomo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1 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, 08 Mar 2006 13:14:11 -0000 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