Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:02:26 -0500 From: Jonathan Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: Samuel Clements <sclements@linkline.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA RAID 1 controllers for Intel board Message-ID: <42702812.1080705@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <427021F9.1010704@linkline.com> References: <MOEGJAOGGMIAPPABAIBOGEJMCDAA.steven.glogger@ch.easynet.net> <427021F9.1010704@linkline.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/05 18:36, Samuel Clements wrote: > Should work just fine with the integrated ICH5R if you CVSUP to > -CURRENT. sos@ has done major work to the ata code recently and I have > many of this exact machine up and running right now. I had to: > > Enable SATA RAID in the BIOS but define no raid > Install FreeBSD on ad4 (or the first disk) > CVSUP to current and rebuild kernel > edit your fstab and change all the ad4 (or whatever disk you installed > on) entries to ar0 > go into RAID BIOS and create a RAID from the first drive > > When it asks you how to create the array, choose Build and it'll copy > your first drive to the second drive, creating a mirror. > > reboot your machine and it should 'just work' Please do not top post. > Steven Glogger wrote: >> i'm fighting a little bit with a new intel server. >> i bought an intel SE7210TP1-E server with integrated RAID controller >> (SATA) >> and thought: nice, one box everything inside ,-) >> but it seems that the raid controller is not supported by any freebsd >> version (i would love to see it running on 5.x). >> on some posts i saw that the onboard controller is some kind of >> 'software-raid' - but i don't care ,-) >> anyhow, i didn't got this onboard raid controller (which seems to be an >> adaptec hostraid) working. >> (if someone knows how to do it: please mail! *beggin*). I was gonna say just define the array beforehand and use the latest 6.x snapshot ISO (http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/), but it looks like ATA mkIII didn't make it into the tree until 2 weeks after the last snapshot. Until the next snapshot is built it looks like you're stuck using the procedure Samuel described. - -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCcCgSUFz01pkdgZURAh0NAKC73kXVn1h7N+vNBIknQ6S1i7WX8gCgvYq9 u7SV0rk1f4+ZXHIZjUVlM08= =20Jm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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