From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 07:50:17 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 81CB8106566C for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:50:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mail.gelita.se (212-162-182-244.skbbip.com [212.162.182.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4195D8FC0C for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gelita.se (localhost.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C661910EE06; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:52:20 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at troback.com Received: from mail.gelita.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (mail.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zCfeS7vvW1-H; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:52:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F76710EE03; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:52:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B98A0B5.4010006@eskk.nu> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:50:13 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Polyack References: <4B980792.3050103@eskk.nu> <4B981934.9090904@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4B981934.9090904@comcast.net> 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: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:50:17 -0000 On 2010-03-10 23:12, Steve Polyack wrote: > 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. > I installed with the 2 disks connected to the controller that was found by Freebsd. Then I added siis_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf. Power down the machine and connected 4 drives to the 3124 controller. Upon restart I created a RAID5 set with the 4 drives in the controllers bios. Booted into FreeBSD but the RAID5 was not detected only the individual disks. This controller obviously does not work as expected. I need a suggestion on a not to expensive RAID controller that is supported by FreeBSD so that I can get the RAID5 set to work. Thanks /Leslie