Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:43:14 +1030 From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> To: Samuel Clements <sclements@linkline.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS P5GD2: onboard SATA RAID support Message-ID: <20050209011314.GD32218@grover.logicsquad.net> In-Reply-To: <4209498D.9050300@linkline.com> References: <20050207052621.GA82561@grover.logicsquad.net> <20050207201234.GG25963@meer.net> <20050208041905.GE1794@grover.logicsquad.net> <4209498D.9050300@linkline.com>
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--UfEAyuTBtIjiZzX6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Samuel, On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:21:49PM -0800, Samuel Clements wrote: > I just completed an install on a machine with similar limitations. I did= =20 > it like this: >=20 > Configured disks to SATA RAID mode (in the BIOS) with no RAID configured= =20 > (left the disks JBOD) > Installed FreeBSD 5.3 from CD/FTP to drive ad4 > cvsupped to stable > applied patches > compiled kernel > rebooted to make sure my kernel worked > changed ad4 to ar0 in fstab > rebooted and went into the RAID BIOS > Created ARRAY_1 (mirror) and when it asked me how I wanted to create it,= =20 > I chose "BUILD" instead of "QUICK" or "INIT" and chose drive #1 as the=20 > source > This copied drive ad4 (with the good kernel that supports the ar0) to=20 > drive ad6 > rebooted and it came up and "just worked" Thanks for this. > The dmesg I just posted from the SE7210TP was achieved this way. I > don't know if this way is sanctioned or approved (or even a good > idea) but it seemed to work. The RAID BIOS is the Adaptec one, so > yours may or may not include the "BUILD" option. The Silicon Image 3114 controller does have a build option, but, somewhat bizarrely, the Intel ICH6 controller doesn't---how does one rebuild a degraded array using this controller? I might try the above on the 3114. (At the moment, it seems to be happily working with ar0 set up by atacontrol with the ICH6 controller.) I am still interested in opinions on the merits of the BIOS-based setups with these (presumably cheap) onboard controllers versus setting up ar0 with atacontrol. Is there a performance/robustness difference? (Maybe I should start a new thread on this.) --=20 Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ --UfEAyuTBtIjiZzX6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCCWOq730Z/jysbzIRAhDgAJ9zE00h9ERsMArhBW8cuUe97cHuywCfeMcW W7brF0jVfydUiiDwYy/OyaQ= =FExN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UfEAyuTBtIjiZzX6--
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