Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:39:13 +0200 From: "Philippe Lang" <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch> To: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? Message-ID: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F4218CCFC@poweredge.attiksystem.ch>
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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:18:05AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: >> Hi, >>=20 >> I've got two boxes that would be perfect for a small server. The >> motherboards are:=20 >>=20 >> - ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, with ICH5R and Promise PDC20378 >> - ASUS P5WD2, with ICH7R >>=20 >> I intend to install FreeBSD 6.1, and I wonder which chipset you would >> recommend me for RAID 1? I need something rock-solid, of course... >>=20 > I'm running -STABLE on a P4C800-E. I've never had a problem > with the PDC20378. Recently, I added two drives on the ICH5R > with no issues. A little benchmarking shows the ICH5R to be a little > faster.=20 Hi, I wasn't as lucky as Doug with my ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe board, both with the ICH5R and Promise RAID controller. 1) With the Promise controller, after simulating a disk problem (shutdown - disk disconnection - reboot - shutdown - disk reconnection - reboot), I wasn't able to rebuild the array at all, either with "atacontrol rebuild ar0" or from the bios. I suspect a spare disk is necessary for a complete rebuild. 2) With the ICH5R controller, installation went fine too. If I disconnect a disk, the system still boots, but when I plug the disk back (computer shut down), no boot is possible anymore. At boot, a kernel panic says: "softdep_setup_inomapdep". No array rebuild is possible from the bios, so I'm stuck. I use freebsd 6.1 RELEASE, with the latest BIOS for the motherboard, and 2 SATA 1.0 Western Digital 160GB disks. I'm trying to configure RAID 1. I'm surprised I have so many problems. Am I doing anything wrong? With INTEL hardware controllers for SCSI disks, I never had any problems until now. Does anyone successfully use another ASUS board, and is able to rebuild the array, without rebooting? Thanks for your time, Regards, ---------------------------------- Philippe Lang, Ing. Dipl. EPFL Attik System rte de la Fonderie 2 1700 Fribourg Switzerland http://www.attiksystem.ch Tel: +41 (26) 422 13 75 Fax: +41 (26) 422 13 76 =20
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