From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 7 12:05:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9861A16A404 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 12:05:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from heathrow.savoladns.com (heathrow.savoladns.com [212.12.174.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 881F943D48 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 12:05:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from ocs.savola.com (ocs.savola.com [222.22.1.211]) by heathrow.savoladns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF52B95854 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 15:05:48 +0300 (AST) Received: from 222.22.1.191 by ocs.savola.com with ESMTP id 56817731147002884; Sun, 07 May 2006 14:54:44 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F5AA@royal64.emp.zapto.org> References: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F5AA@royal64.emp.zapto.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Pt81apSs7y1x22BctcDi" Organization: The Savola Group Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 15:06:00 +0300 Message-Id: <1147003560.814.35.camel@localhost.savola.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Subject: RE: 6.0 RELEASE and Volume Managers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yraffah@savola.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 12:05:52 -0000 --=-Pt81apSs7y1x22BctcDi Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 13:00 +0200, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Yousef Raffah wrote: >=20 > > The machine is a compaq server with Smart RAID controller >=20 > Is the controller recognised by FreeBSD during startup? >=20 Yes > If it's a SmartArray 5xxx then the 'ciss' driver is the one you want: >=20 > ciss0: port ... > [...] > da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device=20 > da0: 135.168MB/s transfers > da0: 105008MB (215056800 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 26355C) >=20 I have exactly the same output :) > This is a real hardware RAID card, and it presents the array to the > system as a regular SCSI disk (da0 above). Just define your array from > the card's BIOS and make sure you are running a kernel that has 'ciss' > enabled (GENERIC has it by default). >=20 Why should I define it from the card's BIOS? Is it done through the system's startup (F9)? How can I have my volumes configured? Is it after the system is being installed or during installation? Please forgive my newbie questions :| > /Daniel Eriksson Thanks=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com --=-Pt81apSs7y1x22BctcDi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEXeKoH9IXMb4e6CMRAhbXAJ91SGcExmvry0tMfIwLhMubksyPOwCgoX/8 NMjvJXfhHyQ5RLwAm3DW6LM= =jpqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Pt81apSs7y1x22BctcDi--