Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 16:25:09 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@mail.bristolsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ICH6R RAID Message-ID: <86k6k9e14q.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <021201c57e8e$dbc65070$c901a8c0@workdog> (Gayn Winters's message of "Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:47:22 -0700") References: <021201c57e8e$dbc65070$c901a8c0@workdog>
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"Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@mail.bristolsystems.com> 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
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