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Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 01:49:05 -0800
From: Jeroen Molinger <j.molinger@chello.nl>
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Subject: Re: IBM ServeRAID 7k & 5.3
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Rong-En Fan wrote:

>[just for a record]
>
>Hi all,
>
>It seems ips(4) doesn't support ServeRAID 7k, however I just
>installed 5.3-RELEASE/i386 on IBM x236 which has ServeRAID
>7k installed. Everything looks fine here (I'm running RAID-5 over
>4 HDDs).
>
>A little problem is that once a HDD fails, FreeBSD doesn't
>know that unless I reboot it and saw the ips state is DEGRADED.
>
>
>pciconf & dmesg are listed as below:
>
>ips0@pci3:14:0: class=0x010400 card=0x028e1014 chip=0x02509005 rev=0x07 hdr=0x00
>    vendor   = 'Adaptec Inc'
>    class    = mass storage
>    subclass = RAID
>
>ips0: <Adaptec ServeRAID Adapter> mem 0xcfffd000-0xcfffdfff irq 38 at
>device 14.0 on pci3
>ips0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xcfffd000
>ips0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>ips0: logical drives: 1
>ips0: Logical Drive 0: RAID5 sectors: 430116864, state OK
>ipsd0: <Logical Drive> on ips0
>ipsd0: Logical Drive  (210018MB)
>
>Regards,
>Rong-En Fan
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Hai Scott,

Do you know when the 7K will be fully supported. I got a note from IBM 
that they will discontinue the ServerRAID 6M series.

Best Regards

Jeroen Molinger