From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 2 14:25:16 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 E007316A41C for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 14:25:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97BD843D1F for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 14:25:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id F27BB6144; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:25:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41B96103; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:25:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BE8D933D38; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:25:09 +0200 (CEST) To: "Gayn Winters" References: <021201c57e8e$dbc65070$c901a8c0@workdog> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 16:25:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: <021201c57e8e$dbc65070$c901a8c0@workdog> (Gayn Winters's message of "Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:47:22 -0700") Message-ID: <86k6k9e14q.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Tests: ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -5.2/5.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on tim.des.no 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: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 14:25:17 -0000 "Gayn Winters" writes: > 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. I don't quite follow that. > 1. How exactly do I know when a patch (mk3 in this case) is in a > release? by tracking release notes and / or commit logs > 2. If the above strategy makes sense, how can I get the latest mk3 for > 5.4? you can't. > 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! just configure the array in BIOS before installing. > 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? I don't understand what you mean by hopeless. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no