From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 15 19:53:26 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 8684916A401 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:53:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lnb@freebsdsystems.com) Received: from mx1.freebsdsystems.com (ns.freebsdsystems.com [69.90.68.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352D413C494 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:53:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lnb@freebsdsystems.com) Received: (qmail 43507 invoked by uid 89); 15 Feb 2007 19:53:09 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.2.0 ppid: 43500, pid: 43504, t: 0.1394s scanners: attach: 1.2.0 clamav: 0.88.7/m:42/d:2553 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (lnb@freebsdsystems.com@216.235.8.115) by mx1.freebsdsystems.com with ESMTPA; 15 Feb 2007 19:53:08 -0000 Message-ID: <45D4B9E9.8000809@freebsdsystems.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:52:09 -0500 From: Lanny Baron Organization: Freedom Technologies / FreeBSD Systems User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Bishop References: <45CB3C43.8060606@webmatique.ca> <45D47785.5020806@freebsdsystems.com> <200702151554.l1FFs7Hk091847@gidgate.gid.co.uk> <45D4ACB2.6070904@freebsdsystems.com> <200702151927.l1FJR0aQ094039@gidgate.gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200702151927.l1FJR0aQ094039@gidgate.gid.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Claude Khalil , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems 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: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:53:26 -0000 Hi Bob, So let me get this right. You installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386 and it does not see ar0 and when you get to disk partion in the install menu it will only report ad4, ad6 ... etc? Regards, ___________________________________________________ Lanny Baron Freedom Technologies Corporation Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 High Performance Servers and RAID Storage Systems http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM ___________________________________________________ Bob Bishop wrote: > At 18:55 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote: >> Hi Bob, >> >> That is very odd. In our testing when enabling the onboard software >> RAID it would show up as AD4 and AD6 as you show below. And this was >> with 6.2-RELEASE/AMD64. Are you running i386? Please let me know. > > That box is running i386 but I don't see why it would make a difference. > I did have to do the usual 'atacontrol create' from fixit before > installing to persuade sysinstall to see ar0. > > It really is all working, we had a drive fail and I did the hot swap and > 'atacontrol rebuild' thing. > >> Thanks Bob. >> Regards, >> ___________________________________________________ >> Lanny Baron >> Freedom Technologies Corporation >> Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 >> High Performance Servers and RAID Storage Systems >> >> http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM >> ___________________________________________________ >> >> >> Bob Bishop wrote: >>> Hi, >>> At 15:08 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote: >>>> [...]The onboard RAID is only supported for Red Hat and Windows and >>>> perhaps a couple of other name brand Linux distros. [etc] >>> Untrue. See the following dmesg highlights: >>> ... >>> FreeBSD 6.1-20060910-SNAP #0: Tue Oct 17 18:08:31 BST 2006 >>> ... >>> cpi0: on motherboard >>> ... >>> atapci1: port >>> 0x40d8-0x40df,0x40f4-0x40f7,0x40d0-0x40d7,0x40f0-0x40f3,0x4020-0x403 >>> f mem 0xb8c00000-0xb8c003ff irq 20 at device 31.2 on pci0 >>> ... >>> ad4: 239372MB at ata2-master SATA300 >>> ad6: 239372MB at ata3-master SATA300 >>> ar0: 238418MB status: READY >>> ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad4 at ata2-master >>> ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master >>> ------------------------------ > > > -- > Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 956 1248 > rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 958 9005 > mobile +44 (0)783 626 4518 >