Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:11:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: sos@freebsd.dk Subject: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions.. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0008252114510.4012-100000@barracuda.aquarium.rtci.com>
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(excuse complete ignorance as far as IDE RAID below) For the buildbox here, I decided to go ahead with Soren's ATA-100 RAID suggestion, and bought an Abit KT7-RAID motherboard, which has an onboard Highpoint HPT-370 ATA-100 RAID. I'm using two 15G IBM 75GX drives on it. So after a long day of hacking at getting Cyclone Interchange to run under FreeBSD, I decided to go for the install today w/ 20000820-CURRENT. I set up the RAID BIOS to stripe together both of the drives, each as a master on their own channel. The controller shows up in the FreeBSD bootup, as well as the drives with UDMA100, but.. While "lsdev" from the boot floppy shows one drive, in FreeBSD & fdisk they show up as two 15G drives (ad4s1 & ad6s1) rather then a 30G concatanated one. Am I missing something here? I've never done IDE RAID, let alone on-board RAID. Are they striped, but show up as seperate due to the lack of emulation? I went ahead and installed FreeBSD as a 6G partition.. and everything looked good (and fast!), but when I rebooted, BootEasy saw the FreeBSD bootblock, but it compained that it couldn't find any ufs partition. However, "lsdev" from the floppies saw a ufs and swap partition when checked. Do I have to install / on a non-RAIDed drive so that the boot loader has a chance? In any case, much thanks goes to Soren for adding support for the HPT-370 (and for the ATA drivers in general). I don't owe him just a beer, but probably a keg or two for all the IDE boxes that I've installed FreeBSD on :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thomas r. stromberg tstromberg@rtci.com senior systems administrator http://www.afterthought.org/ research triangle commerce, inc. 1.919.657.1317 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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