Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:27:17 -0500 From: Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com> To: Barak Enat <barak_enat@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall and compaq smart raid disks (idad) Message-ID: <398AC4B5.2A919E4B@digitalconvergence.com> References: <20000803185946.19054.qmail@web1304.mail.yahoo.com> <3989CBC4.2792D8A2@digitalconvergence.com> <0e3701bffd8e$7f8e5180$0600a8c0@barak>
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I used the sysinstall from the June 2nd snapshot. The DL360
can't boot the freebsd CD so I created the two floppy set
to install with. I did use the sysinstall on the floppies.
The dmesg identifies the device as:
ida0: <NCR/Compaq Integrated Array Controller> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xc4000000-0xc4ffffff,0xc5000000-0xc5ffffff irq 3 at device 1.0 on pci0
ida0: drives=1 firm_rev=1.40
sysinstall detected this device just fine.....
Barak Enat wrote:
>
> well, the complete story is:
> 1. i had 3.4 on the compaq which had the old ida driver (stealing the wd
> name).
> 2. i followed the UPDATING procedure to move to 4.1 - with no problem (just
> had to change the fstab to use the new idad device name).
> 3. later on i added couple of disks and used the ACU to create another
> logical drive (idad1)
> 4. i tried to use /stand/sysinstall to fdisk/disklabel it, but it did not
> recognize any of the idad devices, so i went ahead and fixed sysinstall.
> maybe the sysinstall under /stand is different from the one on the
> installation media??!
> have you used sysinstall on your system?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Edmonds" <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com>
> To: "Barak Enat" <barak_enat@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:45 PM
> Subject: Re: sysinstall and compaq smart raid disks (idad)
>
> > I've got Compaq DL360s with the Integrated Smart
> > RAID adapters and support was added to 4.0-STABLE
> > on June 2nd. I was able to use the June 2nd
> > snapshot of 4.0-STABLE and it installed fine.
> >
> > Have you run the configuration utility and created
> > the RAID volume?
> >
> >
> > Barak Enat wrote:
> > >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > don't know if this is helpfull, but i had to add the
> > > following two lines to
> > > /usr/src/release/sysinstall/devices.c and recompile
> > > sysinstall, so it will recognize the idad disks for
> > > fdisk/disklabel operations.
> > >
> > > { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "idad%d",
> > > "Compaq SMART RAID adapter", 29, 65538, 8, 16, 'b'
> > > },
> > > { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "ridad%d",
> > > "Compaq SMART RAID adapter", 109, 65538, 8, 16, 'c'
> > > },
> > >
> > > seems odd, as at some point i think i read that 4.1
> > > installation supports the smart raid devices out of
> > > the box (i.e. both in kernel and sysinstall)...
> > >
> > > barak
> > >
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