From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 12:53:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2822F16A420 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:53:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF7A43D48 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:53:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F38D39328 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 07:53:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from web3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.212]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:53:28 -0500 Received: by web3.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 028C114F08; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 07:53:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1141736008.30042.256021299@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: YPsb60fDGhayyznrGoPfPfBPPm1hVuPAUUpzkqECbFuc 1141736008 From: "Jud" To: "freebsd-questions" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 5022 (F2.73; T1.15; A1.64; B3.05; Q3.03) Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:53:28 -0500 Subject: Promise TX2200/2300 SATA RAID Controllers - New Driver/BIOS Problem 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: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:53:30 -0000 At the beginning of February, Promise released a new BIOS (version 2.5.0.3115) for the TX2300 and a new Windows driver (version 2.06.0.311) for the TX2200/2300. After installing the new BIOS and driver on my TX2300, neither the BSDINSTALLER iso from early December nor a -CURRENT installation iso from the end of January recognize my RAID-0 array; the two drives are seen as ad4 and ad6 rather than ar0. Prior to installing the new BIOS and driver, the BSDINSTALLER iso did recognize the array as ar0. I'm attempting a reinstall because of an unfortunate concatenation of two hardware problems. I tried to run glxgears on my Radeon 9500 (R300), which caused the system to freeze. After a hardware reset, I ran into the kern/91408 bug. I've backed up my Win system and plan to see tonight whether atacontrol can create ar0 for me. If not, then for the time being I will likely reflash the BIOS and change the Win driver back to the older versions. Jud