From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 30 9:42:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crash.ab.videon.ca (crash.ab.videon.ca [206.75.216.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BA814E6A for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:42:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cwasser@v-wave.com) Received: from area51.v-wave.com (flatline@area51.v-wave.com [24.108.26.39]) by crash.ab.videon.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA07503; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:42:38 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:43:52 -0700 From: Chris Wasser X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.36) S/N FBA00CBA Reply-To: Chris Wasser X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <4447.991130@v-wave.com> To: "J. Maynard Gelinas" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems writing a disklabel/filesystems to Chaparral RAID In-reply-To: <199911301642.LAA03784@bbn.com> References: <199911301642.LAA03784@bbn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 on 11/30/1999 9:42 AM, mgelinas@bbn.com wrote: > continue getting support for the hardware. This just seems crazy... it's a > SCSI disk as far the the OS is concerned, it just shouldn't matter what OS I > use. The only possible issue I can see is if the disk array has more cyls, > heads, sects than is supported by FreeBSD or Solaris/x86, but I can't imagine > that First off, let me say that's a sexy piece of hardware you have there however I'm not familiar with it but it's very possible that it's a specialized piece of hardware in the sense it's built for Windows platforms only. I've seen hardware in my many travels that "refuses" to work properly under any OS except Windows. Have you tried direct connecting the drives themselves on a regular SCSI controller and seeing if FreeBSD can deal with them? As far as the vendor claiming it needs to be on ID 0, to me that's absolute nonsense. It may turn out that the vendor is trying to take you for a ride and simply doesn't want to support anything outside their meager field of expertise. Perhaps you're better off replacing the RAID unit itself and keep the drives. Not alot of help, but it's a start. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQA/AwUBOEQM2HkOgeFubyAgEQJSAwCdHTKKoeeHI8fTkPQfa2bjye29MpoAoJE7 l94oS+vynEuz9dTg0hAwObMO =cFvQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message