From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 7 7: 3:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6953937B423; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 07:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA12267; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:54:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200009071354.JAA12267@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Brandon S. DeYoung" , "Mike Smith" Cc: "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:01:54 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <200009041935.MAA05083@mass.osd.bsdi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Problems installing 4.1 on 3ware RAID 5200 & 6200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:35:37 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> 2) Allow profiling to complete, but leave the installer on the first screen >> ("skip kernel configuration.....") until drives are idle. A quick note on this method. Given the notes I had read about letting the controller initialize I tried the following: After doing Alt3 I let it boot prior to trying to install FreeBSD. I thought the controller would start on it's own so even though the computer wa sitting with a "no boot disk error" I thought it would be initializing. I left the computer like this for a day. Upon returning I rebooted and found that the RAID1 had still not been initialized. Called 3ware and they said that once the device tried to be accessed that it would start initializing. Started the FreeBSD install to the point where i asked me for media type. At this stage the twe driver has tried to access the disks and the init process has started. Given the advice to let it complete before proceeding I did that. While I was at the office about 6 hours had elapsed and it was still going (if you have the machine open you can see the controller lights). Next morning the lights were off. Continued the FreeBSD install and all seemed well. I only played briefly yesterday. Ran Bonnie and RAID0 seemed about twice as fast. RAID1 seemed about 20% faster. I will do some more tests today and by the weekend I will post all the results. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message