Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:40:33 +0100 From: Christopher Raven <c.raven@uk.cian.net> To: Jason Stewart <jstewart@rtl.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with PCI RAID installation on FreeBSD 4.8 Message-ID: <27508254.1061487632@[10.0.0.3]> In-Reply-To: <3F44E41A.2010803@rtl.org> References: <18063273.1061478187@[10.0.0.3]> <3F44E41A.2010803@rtl.org>
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Hi Jason, Thanks for the feedback... yes was aware of Vinum but I hear a few horror stories of trying to change drives out when there's a problem... The card was hardware (I thought)... but the bit I didn't expect was that the card would be transparent to FreeBSD if not recognised. I figured an unsupported card would not show the drives on it... this one does but all separate (even though the BIOS acknowledges the 4 drive RAID is drive 80)... cheers, Chris R. --On 21 August 2003 11:24 -0400 Jason Stewart <jstewart@rtl.org> wrote: > Christopher Raven wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.8 onto an Intel ISP2150 that I have >> ripped the SCSI cabling and boards from in place of a PCI RAID system. >> All seems to have gone well and I can boot and configure the RAID card >> locally (4x80GB). However, FreeBSD insists in seeing the RAID >> (supposedly striped and mirrored) as 4 separate disks... ad4 -> 7. >> >> Is this correct? Do I need to change something here in FreeBSD as I >> can't see anything obvious in the docs or from searching the web on >> this? > > It could be correct if you haven't set up your RAID card correctly. Is it > a hardware or software controlled RAID card. If it's hardware controlled, > you have to set up your RAID configuration in the card so FreeBSD > recognizes it as 1 disk. If it's software controlled, cou can use > something like ccd or vinum. See this articles for more info on vinum: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/index.html > Or the RAID section from the trusty handbook: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html > > Good Luck, > Jason > -- Christopher Raven c.raven@uk.cian.net
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