From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 20 16:39:47 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 4873816A47D for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:39:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch) Received: from mail.attiksystem.ch (f29.attiksystem.ch [212.147.59.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5CAF43DA2 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:39:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch) Received: from poweredge.attiksystem.ch (poweredge.attiksystem.ch [10.0.0.29]) by mail.attiksystem.ch (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5KGdDxD093993; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:39:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6603.0 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:39:13 +0200 Message-ID: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F4218CCFC@poweredge.attiksystem.ch> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? Thread-Index: AcaTml0aO6mRpUdjTomBSIsQLMEZOQA61I9A From: "Philippe Lang" To: "Doug Poland" X-Spam-Score: -1.44 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.49 on 10.0.0.111 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? 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, 20 Jun 2006 16:39:47 -0000 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