From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 17:50:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@hub.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF7C16A494 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:50:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8A343D48 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:50:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5NHoLW4077449 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:50:21 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k5NHoL4e077448; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:50:21 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:50:21 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <200606231750.k5NHoL4e077448@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Brian Reichert Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FAFB16A492 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:42:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reichert@natto.numachi.com) Received: from meisai.numachi.com (meisai.numachi.com [198.175.254.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CF1A43D45 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:42:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reichert@natto.numachi.com) Received: (qmail 54420 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2006 17:42:02 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by meisai.numachi.com with SMTP; 23 Jun 2006 17:42:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 21712 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jun 2006 17:42:02 -0000 Message-Id: <20060623174202.21711.qmail@natto.numachi.com> Date: 23 Jun 2006 17:42:02 -0000 From: Brian Reichert To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Cc: Subject: amd64/99385: sucessful test of RAID on ga-k8n51GMF-9 motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Brian Reichert List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:50:22 -0000 >Number: 99385 >Category: amd64 >Synopsis: sucessful test of RAID on ga-k8n51GMF-9 motherboard >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-amd64 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jun 23 17:50:16 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Brian Reichert >Release: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE amd64 >Organization: Numachi >Environment: System: FreeBSD testing.numachi.com 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:04:14 UTC 2006 root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: In reviewing: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html I note that the RAID is considered untested. I've been able to install 6.1-R on a mirrored RAID volume. The BIOS and RAID utlilties were bit bit obtuse, but I was able to get a RAID volume up and bootable. In the RAID utility in particular, you had to expressly set a 'bootable' flag for the boot process to see it. One item of note: this motherboard supports four SATA drives. It has two pairs of SATA ports, usefully lableled 1-2, 3-4. I found that if I used ports 1+2, FreeBSD could only see one of the two drives. If I used ports 1+3, FreeBSD could see both drives. If I tried to build a RAID with ports 1+2, FreeBSD could see the volume, but only one drive, and complained a lot. My current config: two 250G SATA 2 drives, in ports 1+3, in a mirrored volume. Snippets from dmesg: ata2-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UDMA133 cable=40 wire ad4: 238474MB at ata2-master SATA300 ad4: 488395055 sectors [484518C/16H/63S] 16 sectors/interrupt 1 depth queue ******** ATA nVidia MediaShield Metadata ******** nvidia_id config_size 30 checksum 0xede8c579 version 0x0064 disk_number 0 dummy_0 0x00 total_sectors 488395008 sectors_size 512 serial MIRROR 232.88G revision dummy_1 0x00000000 magic_0 0x00640044 magic_1 0x557a925c3cb22c4d magic_2 0x61b30330621f01db flags 0x03 array_width 1 total_disks 2 dummy_2 0x01 type RAID1 dummy_3 0x0000 stripe_sectors 128 stripe_bytes 65536 stripe_shift 7 stripe_mask 0x0000007f stripe_sizesectors 128 stripe_sizebytes 65536 rebuild_lba 0 dummy_4 0x00000081 dummy_5 0x1d1c5100 status 0x00000001 ================================================= ata4-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UDMA133 cable=40 wire ad8: 238474MB at ata4-master SATA300 ad8: 488395055 sectors [484518C/16H/63S] 16 sectors/interrupt 1 depth queue ******** ATA nVidia MediaShield Metadata ******** nvidia_id config_size 30 checksum 0xede7c479 version 0x0064 disk_number 1 dummy_0 0x00 total_sectors 488395008 sectors_size 512 serial MIRROR 232.88G revision dummy_1 0x00000100 magic_0 0x00640044 magic_1 0x557a925c3cb22c4d magic_2 0x61b30330621f01db flags 0x03 array_width 1 total_disks 2 dummy_2 0x01 type RAID1 dummy_3 0x0000 stripe_sectors 128 stripe_bytes 65536 stripe_shift 7 stripe_mask 0x0000007f stripe_sizesectors 128 stripe_sizebytes 65536 rebuild_lba 0 dummy_4 0x00000081 dummy_5 0x1d1c5100 status 0x00000001 ================================================= GEOM: new disk ad4 GEOM: new disk ad8 ... ATA PseudoRAID loaded ********** ATA PseudoRAID ar0 Metadata ********** ================================================= format nVidia MediaShield type RAID1 flags 0x01 1 magic_0 0x557a925c3cb22c4d magic_1 0x61b30330621f01db generation 0 total_sectors 488395008 offset_sectors 0 heads 255 sectors 63 cylinders 30401 width 1 interleave 128 total_disks 2 disk 0: flags = 0x0b b ad4: sectors 488395008 disk 1: flags = 0x0b b ad8: sectors 488395008 ================================================= ar0: 238474MB status: READY ar0: 488395008 sectors [30401C/255H/63S] <> subdisks defined as: ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad4 at ata2-master ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad8 at ata4-master GEOM: new disk ar0 >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: