From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 10:56:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A1CC1065673; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:56:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com (mail-fx0-f225.google.com [209.85.220.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE748FC15; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:56:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm25 with SMTP id 25so85923fxm.3 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:56:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=3bmhFCU96JYlDZ3m+DBxZ3R94hKcwzzV/JWFMd0IZzw=; b=vwAqrsXiDW2Duu8ro6G8LZdCSm0lhcrT6yN+lMPMtjBWlfjvXAR6s7mrSdewSHJnRb tstITy/DqIjbLR3ek4zTLuXvvd2hONK3uWv+QHyKJjPF3UyOlq8/wgiAlz9qcdpDLtx+ X9RbGIkPqaUj4heViaK1dtrJXG94B3aSJKjLA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=UCmcEt2U7I426ZJo/IAGY2TX7qZ1qbI6ZuMzPpLmIzjVvICoVxx0eSkUD86ZcE6mXy BJjAYUsDYnstTwvCQrXNjV7ZZr6j5bxS7anAzISPQjbPMftXYYq1f0whRKqcpoVI8j8o 0mkx8R0EFY6BNNs+VTW9YBW1rY2xt4O8FNApU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.157.136 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:56:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6201873e1003301813o32024529s8dae620af17b87db@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e1003290739t588ae242gef92d14e9d889749@mail.gmail.com> <20100329172352.GA85779@potato> <20100331005639.GA91332@potato> <6201873e1003301813o32024529s8dae620af17b87db@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:56:06 +0100 Received: by 10.239.154.135 with SMTP id e7mr689884hbc.76.1270032966635; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: krad To: Adam Vande More Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: John , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Varan Okul Subject: Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 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: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:56:08 -0000 On 31 March 2010 02:13, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John wrote: > >> >> >> Hi, thanks for your input. >> >> I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot >> from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? >> >> What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't >> select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could >> just use zfs for raid functionality. >> >> Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. >> Maybe this is what it's for? >> -- >> John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com >> OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop >> GPG: 0xF08A33C5 >> > > Your best bet would be to configure the drives as JBOD and see if it > detects the disks. Post dmesg from that. > > -- > Adam Vande More > we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. We are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the next chasis.