From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 04:27:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F1516A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:27:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7902F43D3F for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 80592530A; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:27:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id A52255308; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:27:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 8EE1033C6A; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:27:36 +0100 (CET) To: Chris Knight References: <401610E4.70604@ghostwheel.com> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:27:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: <401610E4.70604@ghostwheel.com> (Chris Knight's message of "Tue, 27 Jan 2004 02:19:00 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: ss X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.61 cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI MegaRaid ATA 133-2 install question X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:27:54 -0000 Chris Knight writes: > Is the LSI MegaRaid ATA 133-2 a hardware raid controller, or is it > all in the included drivers and the BIOS util is only for saving a > config to the drives? The latter, most likely. Otherwise, FreeBSD wouldn't see the individual drives, the RAID controller would show up as a SCSI controller and the array would show up as da[0-9]+. > (Did I just over-pay for a IDE controller?) Since you just want mirrored drives, you don't even need the RAID BIOS to boot, so: yes, you were conned. Provided you leave a little space at the end of the disk, you can set up mirrorring after you're done installing (off the top of my head and totally untested: 'atacontrol create RAID1 ad0' to create a single-disk mirrored volume followed by 'atacontrol addspare ar0 ad2' to add the second disk; you may need to 'atacontrol rebuild' to initialize the second disk; and sos@ will probably kill me for getting the instructions all wrong) > Is there anyway to get FreeBSD to recognize the LSI MegaRaid ATA > 133-2 as a RAID controller? Preferrably as a boot device? Only if its on-disk layout is compatible with the Promise or Highpoint layout. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no