From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 15 6:50:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leaf.lumiere.net (leaf.lumiere.net [208.44.192.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7AF37B479 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:50:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by leaf.lumiere.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AF7B7F0F8; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:50:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:50:17 -0800 (PST) From: Jesse X-Sender: j@localhost To: sos@freebsd.dk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Jesse Subject: HPT 370 BIOS RAID setup/install Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I currently have a 4.2-BETA system running off of ad4. I want to use the BIOS RAID mirroring function of the HPT370 chipset. I describe my situation first. The questions are at the end. As I understand from reading various -stable and -current mailing list messages, BIOS RAID with this controller is now supported. The kernel sees the array and the drives: ar0: 28629MB [3649/255/63] subdisks: ad4: 28629MB [58168/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA66 ad6: 28629MB [58168/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA66 Now if I try to mount the partitions under ar*, I get errors about the raw partition size != slice size. The difference seems to be by 10 blocks. The questions: 1) Is it possible to resize/relabel my partitions so as to work properly? Seems like the BIOS is stealing 10 blocks away. How? 2) If 1) isn't possible, could a new 4.2-BETA installation directly onto ar0 work? If so, what would I need to do special? 3) If 2) isn't possible, could I reinstall on ad* in a way that would allow me to switchover to ar0 without the partition errors? Thanks, --- Jesse "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message