Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:24:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.dk Subject: Re: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions.. Message-ID: <200008260724.AAA00625@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:11:40 EDT." <Pine.GSO.4.20.0008252114510.4012-100000@barracuda.aquarium.rtci.com>
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This is not an "IDE RAID" controller. It's an IDE controller with some lame "RAID" software in the BIOS. We don't support this. > (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 > -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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