Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:55:46 -0500 From: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: Claude Khalil <c.khalil@webmatique.ca>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems Message-ID: <45D4ACB2.6070904@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200702151554.l1FFs7Hk091847@gidgate.gid.co.uk> References: <45CB3C43.8060606@webmatique.ca> <45D47785.5020806@freebsdsystems.com> <200702151554.l1FFs7Hk091847@gidgate.gid.co.uk>
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Hi Bob, That is very odd. In our testing when enabling the onboard software RAID it would show up as AD4 and AD6 as you show below. And this was with 6.2-RELEASE/AMD64. Are you running i386? Please let me know. Thanks Bob. Regards, ___________________________________________________ Lanny Baron Freedom Technologies Corporation Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 High Performance Servers and RAID Storage Systems http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM ___________________________________________________ Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > > At 15:08 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote: >> [...]The onboard RAID is only supported for Red Hat and Windows and >> perhaps a couple of other name brand Linux distros. [etc] > > Untrue. See the following dmesg highlights: > > ... > FreeBSD 6.1-20060910-SNAP #0: Tue Oct 17 18:08:31 BST 2006 > ... > cpi0: <INTEL S5000PAL> on motherboard > ... > atapci1: <Intel 63XXESB2 SATA300 controller> port > 0x40d8-0x40df,0x40f4-0x40f7,0x40d0-0x40d7,0x40f0-0x40f3,0x4020-0x403f > mem 0xb8c00000-0xb8c003ff irq 20 at device 31.2 on pci0 > ... > ad4: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata2-master SATA300 > ad6: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata3-master SATA300 > ar0: 238418MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID1> status: READY > ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad4 at ata2-master > ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master > ------------------------------ > Chris Bishop > www.chrisbishop.org > chris@chrisbishop.org > +44 (0)7776 258368 >
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