From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 30 13:43:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jubilee.bbn.com (JUBILEE.bbn.com [171.78.41.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E3C14A1A for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:43:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mgelinas@scuzzlebutt.bbn.com) Received: from bbn.com (IDENT:root@scuzzlebutt.bbn.com [171.78.41.121]) by jubilee.bbn.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA13852; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:43:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from scuzzlebutt.bbn.com (IDENT:mgelinas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bbn.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA04686; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:02:50 -0500 Message-Id: <199911302202.RAA04686@bbn.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: Chris Wasser Subject: Re: Problems writing a disklabel/filesystems to Chaparral RAID Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:43:52 MST." <4447.991130@v-wave.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:02:50 -0500 From: "J. Maynard Gelinas" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [reply below] > > 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? The RAID takes a straight SCSI U2W differential interface; it should be OS agnostic. As I wrote, the drives are also SCSI -- and I'm sure they work fine individually. > > 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. The vendor didn't claim it should be set it ID 0, he claimed it should be set to LUN 1 and *NOT* LUN 0, which is altogether a different issue. Currently the RAID is set to ID 1, LUN 0... though I tested it at LUN 1 (for shits and grins), configured and built a FreeBSD kernel to support this, and experienced the same problem. IMNSHO SAG (our vendor) is full of it. > > Not alot of help, but it's a start. Thanks anyway! :-) --Maynard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message