From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 17:35:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2CF16A4DA for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:35:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugeny.kuzakov@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCA443D58 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:35:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eugeny.kuzakov@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b36so3960072pyb for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:35:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=crmn6rxsvPknogDcmE/N2CyhFNsN6vmDVujuSzIU+kOdsFqn81mOk1jb3mxeKfSdPZp2+8mPhYdSHL2opOfPjOUXirw3QClTf+ouF6FPIXT+M6oSq+2zGHnPpJXvDjzwF9BqX+BnkNZpHxIrLlf3rpt6wKtWD64aWYjIeZA+Qvk= Received: by 10.35.37.18 with SMTP id p18mr6927267pyj; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.42.9 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <146805bd0607111035u6580d7b1k4cc7ed0bbf894ad7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:35:14 +0400 From: "Eugeny Kuzakov" Sender: eugeny.kuzakov@gmail.com To: "Alex Zbyslaw" In-Reply-To: <44B3AB3E.6050602@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <146805bd0607100055h64d7e8e9i39e3bc02ce05658e@mail.gmail.com> <44veq4wa3v.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <44B3AB3E.6050602@dial.pipex.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4e9a8e783f6508df Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sil3112 question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:35:16 -0000 On 7/11/06, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Er, no, unless I am much mistaken it doesn't imply that at all (see man > ataraid). FreeBSD handles plenty of "software" (metadata only) RAIDs, > though I believe that an archive search will turn up that the sil3112 is > possibly the worst such RAID ever and was a poor choice of RAID card, > however cheap. Try google. SiL are listed among the controllers > supported by ataraid on 6.1 so I would expect the RAID to be recognised > even if it performed badly. Of course you are right in all the points!:( I know it now, at the moment of buy I didn't know what chip is used in the Tekram TR-822.. I was very surprised when I see chip name... I don'e think that is the solution worst, but problem is different metadata formats in different BIOSes... Initially I asked who uses sil3112 and hasn't pronlems:) Today I will try to update flash bios to some older version, but it's designed for linux... I hope FreeBSD driver recongnise it's metadata format... I've not used such a RAID so perhaps some specific action with > atacontrol is required. I see at least two problems: 1. If I create raid1 or raid0 using atacontrol create bla-bla-bla then I see new device -- ar0. After paririoning&labeling I try to newfs it... FreeBSD hungs in same moment without any warnings... 2. If I create raid1 or raid0 using bios utility of sil3112 then FreeBSD driver doesn'y recognise this metadata. It's just see disk drives and nothing more....:( -- Best wishes, Coredumped.