From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 22:12:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7123106566B for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:12:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from korvus@comcast.net) Received: from mx04.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx04.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.72.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43048FC24 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:12:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.164] ([206.210.89.202]) by mx04.pub.collaborativefusion.com (StrongMail Enterprise 4.1.1.4(4.1.1.4-47689)); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:29:18 -0500 X-VirtualServerGroup: Default X-MailingID: 00000::00000::00000::00000::::0 X-SMHeaderMap: mid="X-MailingID" X-Destination-ID: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-SMFBL: ZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnNAZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Message-ID: <4B981934.9090904@comcast.net> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:12:04 -0500 From: Steve Polyack User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100211 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leslie Jensen References: <4B980792.3050103@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <4B980792.3050103@eskk.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers 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: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:12:09 -0000 On 03/10/10 15:56, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8-RELEASE on a machine with an Abit > aw8-max MB. This MB has a built in SiI 3132 RAID controller. I also > have an addon card with a SiI 3124 RAID controller. > > The problem is that I can see the 2 disks and the RAID1 set that I > want to use for the system if I connect the disks to the built in 3132 > controller. But if I connect the disks to the 3124 controller and > create a RAID1 set, only the disks can be seen. > > I need to be able to use both controllers because I've got four disks > that I want to build a RAID5 set on one of the controllers. > > Can anyone shed some light on this. Via Google I've read some articles > about these controllers and I'm aware that I might have to rethink > because of lacking support for the 3124 controller. > > I've read in the ata man page that parameters can be added to > /boot/device.hints but I'm not sure how to handle this during > installation. > > /Leslie > > Are you using the default ata(4) driver that FreeBSD-8 boots with, or are you loading the siis(4) module at boot? If you are using the ata(4) driver, you should try enabling the siis(4) driver by placing 'siis_load="YES"' in /boot/loader.conf. Beware that the names of your disks will transition from ad -> ada and will likely be renumbered as well. The siis(4) driver overall has a much richer feature set. I have several 3124 controllers which work great with it, but I have never tried using the controllers RAID - I simply use them as disk controllers and then pool the disks using ZFS.