From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 6 10:12:50 2002 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 E33D537B408 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:12:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.sea.registeredsite.com (mail1.sea.registeredsite.com [66.111.73.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9861143ED1 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:12:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Received: from asarian-host.net (asarian-host.net [216.122.74.112]) by mail1.sea.registeredsite.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB6ICd4U031881 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:12:41 -0500 Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email addresses for asarians can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by asarian-host.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id gB6ICdX04069 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:12:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Posted-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:12:39 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Message-Id: <200212061812.GB6ICYT04032@asarian-host.net> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:12:22 +0100 X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net Subject: Re: Q: FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT MB (Promise PDC2067 IDERAID) X-Trace: Jm8h2Dt3k2pfbBQKxAOLFwDuQNvq+bMEs0MI275dp0TbCtb7/8V2AOQEdo7tsidK X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: "Andrew Stesin" , , "Christopher Schulte" Cc: References: <127.0.0.1.2.20021206113547.0433e118@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAPfDolzFqW1BleBN9AQHnPAf/Vs/6J3YPNFDdp4z54Y9OyG8wC+v+8Jc6 MD2p+a3mZsIRdbymv9xZKz5zl5GAx1bP2+GVzDFwnPtLpXH+Pf7PCx/IfJX2ZkOB v4/7FUwnlQX9ugHAympfTGw7KogJSTYyBwwVndAJ6YokNbVKt36EILc3hdM7C1os 9VT0ODrHpQMa7UH2wCC9cepudcthqRx0qxeWGVHnQyP9HZyRP8CEPtQS3kqkvwSK zol/oGyKiwO1cKOVIEIKJQb/Vr3/Nqfa6YJw6AXbSU1apbfeQKNJOUgnmCVCLw/t mPT1n/ZaWcehHdYeeng6u7s0MKbvKfjD9elgnf37MCm+ensiYwJPxg== =T6jP Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Schulte" To: "Andrew Stesin" ; Cc: Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: Re: Q: FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT MB (Promise PDC2067 IDERAID) > > Especially interesting is how an onboard Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID > > controller works with FreeBSD - or better to say, does it work at all? > > What are the caveates with it, if any? How RAID configuration works? > > I had the same question (on 4.7) regarding the pdc20267. There were no > formal replies, so I asked Andrew privately. His response is below, > printed with permission, in case others search the archives for this > answer: Mine is not a formal reply either, of course. :) But I can personally vouch for the proper functionality of the PDC2067 RAID (on 4.7R). It is on my ASUS A7V333 board, and FreeBSD gave no problems whatsoever. I installed a RAID 1, and I could readily install and boot from it, and everything has been running smoothly ever since. The only "problem" I have, is that I have not been able yet to figure out a way to query the status of each individual, physical drive. But that is, of course, not a controller problem, but a software one. For Windoze they come with all kinds of cute utilities, but those are sadly absent for UNIX systems. I am still looking for a proper snmp agent; but, like I said, that has nothing to do with the functionality of the PDC2067. Having done a wee research before I bought the board, I saw that Linux had quite a bit of trouble with it. But FreeBSD handles everything perfectly. - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message