Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:52:09 -0500 From: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: Claude Khalil <c.khalil@webmatique.ca>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems Message-ID: <45D4B9E9.8000809@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200702151927.l1FJR0aQ094039@gidgate.gid.co.uk> 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>
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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: <INTEL S5000PAL> on motherboard >>> ... >>> atapci1: <Intel 63XXESB2 SATA300 controller> 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 <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata2-master SATA300 >>> ad6: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata3-master SATA300 >>> ar0: 238418MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID1> 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 >
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