Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 15:06:00 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah <yraffah@savola.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 6.0 RELEASE and Volume Managers Message-ID: <1147003560.814.35.camel@localhost.savola.com> In-Reply-To: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F5AA@royal64.emp.zapto.org> References: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F5AA@royal64.emp.zapto.org>
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--=-Pt81apSs7y1x22BctcDi Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 13:00 +0200, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Yousef Raffah wrote: >=20 > > The machine is a compaq server with Smart RAID controller >=20 > Is the controller recognised by FreeBSD during startup? >=20 Yes > If it's a SmartArray 5xxx then the 'ciss' driver is the one you want: >=20 > ciss0: <Compaq Smart Array 5300> port ... > [...] > da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <COMPAQ RAID 5 VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device=20 > da0: 135.168MB/s transfers > da0: 105008MB (215056800 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 26355C) >=20 I have exactly the same output :) > This is a real hardware RAID card, and it presents the array to the > system as a regular SCSI disk (da0 above). Just define your array from > the card's BIOS and make sure you are running a kernel that has 'ciss' > enabled (GENERIC has it by default). >=20 Why should I define it from the card's BIOS? Is it done through the system's startup (F9)? How can I have my volumes configured? Is it after the system is being installed or during installation? Please forgive my newbie questions :| > /Daniel Eriksson Thanks=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com --=-Pt81apSs7y1x22BctcDi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEXeKoH9IXMb4e6CMRAhbXAJ91SGcExmvry0tMfIwLhMubksyPOwCgoX/8 NMjvJXfhHyQ5RLwAm3DW6LM= =jpqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Pt81apSs7y1x22BctcDi--
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