From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 3 17:44:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E989D16A400 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:44:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lukas@razik.de) Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de (fmmailgate02.web.de [217.72.192.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF3513C44B for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:44:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lukas@razik.de) Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4375A84C2700; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:23:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [88.76.44.213] (helo=[192.168.0.7]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (WEB.DE 4.108 #197) id 1HutWQ-0004dT-00; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:05:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4662F5BF.4090709@razik.de> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:09:19 +0200 From: Lukas Razik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 FreeBSD/i386 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: matthew@digitalstratum.com References: <4662E72B.70003@digitalstratum.com> In-Reply-To: <4662E72B.70003@digitalstratum.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: lukas@razik.de X-Sender: X-Provags-ID: Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise TX2300 array not detected. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:44:23 -0000 Hello Matthew! You can read my experience with the TX4310 controller (same as TX2300 but with 4 ports and RAID5 support - TX4300 doesn't have RAID5): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003505.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003506.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003507.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003508.html I hope you will get it work with the 'atacontrol' command: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrol&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html The problem for me with atacontrol was that after booting Windows my /dev/arX device always has been destroyed. My solution was: Buying a 3ware 8006-2LP 2-port SATA HARDWARE RAID Controller which has better performance than the TX4310 although it's SATA and not SATA-II and also very good Linux support. Regards and Good Luck! Lukas Matthew Hagerty wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a Promise TX2300 (latest BIOS 2.5.0.3122) that I'm trying to use > with 6.2R. I set up a two disk mirror using the card's BIOS utility, > but when I go to install FBSD my disk selection is only ad4 and ad6, the > array is not being recognized (I believe I should have an ar0 in the > list as well). > > I can install on a single disk just fine, I just can't get FBSD to see > the array. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >