From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 22:47:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF8A16A41C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 22:47:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gayn.winters@mail.bristolsystems.com) Received: from dns.bristolsystems.com (h-68-167-239-98.lsanca54.covad.net [68.167.239.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F4843D1D for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 22:47:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gayn.winters@mail.bristolsystems.com) Received: from workdog ([192.168.1.201]) by dns.bristolsystems.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j61MlWg24338; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:47:32 -0700 From: "Gayn Winters" To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?'=22Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav=22'?=" , "'Masashi SAKURADA'" Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:47:22 -0700 Message-ID: <021201c57e8e$dbc65070$c901a8c0@workdog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <86y88shzt7.fsf@xps.des.no> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ICH6R RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:47:38 -0000 Hi! Thanks for the info. Thus to get ICH6R supported on 5.4 I need to load 5.4R onto one drive, apply the mk3 patch, recompile, reboot, build a release bootable CD, shutdown, reset the hardware to RAID1, and reload from the new CD. This ought to work like it does using 6.0-CURRENT-SNAP004 (which I am now happy with). The suggestion below to avoid sysinstall and craft the array by hand doesn't seem to use the hardware RAID1 supported by ICH6R. 1. How exactly do I know when a patch (mk3 in this case) is in a release? 2. If the above strategy makes sense, how can I get the latest mk3 for 5.4? 3. If I'm missing something, e.g. around sysinstall, what am I missing? (Sakurada-san suggested using atacontrol create.. to build ar0 with a degraded array (that I got to work), but if the above strategy works, I think this won't be necessary, unless again I'm missing something! 4. I'm leaning towards just using software RAID (gmirror) for this system, which must be a production system when it is up. Both 5.4 and 6.0 look hopeless for different reasons. Thoughts on this? Thanks for the help! -gayn > -----Original Message----- > From: "Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav" [mailto:des@des.no]=20 > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:03 AM > To: Gayn Winters > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: ICH6R RAID >=20 >=20 > "Gayn Winters" writes: > > Now man ata(4) indicates that only up to ICH5 is supported=20 > in 5.4 while > > up to ICH6 is supported in 6.0, but the hardware archives=20 > indicate that > > sos's MK3 patches made it into 5.4-RELEASE, and 6.0 "fully"=20 > supports the > > ICH6R. However, I'm actually not sure the precise story here. >=20 > 5.4 does not have MK3. >=20 > > Has anyone out there actually booted FreeBSD using mirrored=20 > SATA drives > > with an ICH6R? If so, how did you do it and what version=20 > did you use? >=20 > Nothing special. I started out with a hand-rolled bootable livecd of > -CURRENT with the MK3 patches when they first became available, and > did a manual install (no sysinstall, fdisk + disklabel + newfs + tar) >=20 > DES > --=20 > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no >=20