From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 12:54:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB8B37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux.nu (port277.cvx3-mal.ppp.netlink.se [62.66.14.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12D2743E67 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:54:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thrawn@linux.nu) Received: (qmail 610 invoked by uid 1022); 8 Jul 2002 19:54:07 -0000 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:54:07 +0200 From: thrawn@linux.nu To: Mark Rowlands Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Raid on mylex dac960pg and ami 428 raid cards Message-ID: <20020708215407.A540@thrawn.birch.se> References: <20020707033240.A274@thrawn.birch.se> <200207071547.37664.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200207071547.37664.mark.rowlands@minmail.net>; from mark.rowlands@minmail.net on Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 03:47:37PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Thanks for answering so fast. > Always take a backup of the raid configuration and the data before you do > anything! That I have allready done, /var /usr /usr/home /usr/ports /etc have i tared down to another partion on an ide disc. > Update the firmware and bios :-) I will do that also. > http://www.mylex.com/pub/support/current_raid/fw_pgpj.EXE > Nope. You mean I can do it in dos. > My usual procedure is create a dos boot diskette and run the mylex > configuration utility > (http://www.mylex.com/pub/support/current_raid/ezassist.exe) and create the > raid array within that. On some cards you have the option to press F2 (istr) > and configure from the cards bios but I have had problems with that in the > past. This card has a strict bios and I can not do anything in it. I has a configuration of 3 discs of something that its complaining on when the bios initilize on it. But I guesss I can solve this problem with the dos utilit to eraze that config. > man vinum and http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/ for how to setup virtual arrays > within freebsd. In short, it depends on the card. Im not sure if you did understand what I meant I have a array of 3 18,4 discs and I have get 2 18,4 disc and want them to join the array. I think its possible to do that without have to recreate the hole raid array. So that I don't have to do it from scratch. Are you with me? I think there is software for w2k to do it but only w2k... and that is fustrating. But it is better then nothing. > difficult to have a raid 5 setup with only two disks.......... I know, see above > don't remove one of the disks from a raid array But they I have experienced it two times no and the discs are not in a hotswap bay. It happend after I rebooted the computer or shut it down and the powerd it on later again. But any way it seems to work good now. > And always take a backup of the raid configuration and the data before you do > anything! I Have done that, but again thanks for the tip Mvh Mattias Björk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message