From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 14:13:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6498116A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:13:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B52B643D53 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:13:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5m95-0002f2-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:12:59 +0200 Received: from ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com ([62.90.139.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:12:59 +0200 Received: from haim by ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:12:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Haim Ashkenazi Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:12:54 +0300 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <4141B10C.2070704@gallan.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Sender: news Subject: Re: Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:13:01 -0000 On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:50:04 +0100, Gary Allan wrote: > Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I've installed freebsd 4_10 on a pc with Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A (mirror) >>and it seems to work fine. in dmesg I can see the raid (ar0) and the >>disks. >>my only concern is that since this card is not supported (according to >>adaptec it only supports windows), I'm afraid that in the case of disk >>failures, I won't see the errors in '/var/log/messages'. (a problem I'm >>having with compaq card and debian - but there, I can check the status >>with the leds). >>does anyone have experience with this card on freebsd? >> >>thanx >> >> > I believe this card is based upon a Highpoint 370/370A chip which is > supported by the manufacturer. > http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/b370na.htm > I 'm currently using a card with this chipset under FreeBSD 4.10 with no > problems. The array was listed as a drive during the install process > (along with it's component drives strangely.) my concern is about reporting disk failures to the logs. I have a compaq SCSI RAID which I installed debian on it without a problem, but if I remove one of the disks (hot-swap) I see nothing in the logs. without the leds on the front panel, I wouldn't know if there is a problem until both disks fail. > > Regards > > Gaz > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, > send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" thanx -- Haim