Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:49:44 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@bfoz.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing 5.4-S on nvidia raid1? Message-ID: <20050812154944.GB888@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <42FBE31B.2010008@bfoz.net> References: <42FBE31B.2010008@bfoz.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:45:31PM -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > I have a DFI Lanparty nf4 Ultra-D with two 80GB drives configured as a > raid1 array. The bios lists the array as scsi-0 and claims that its > healthy. When I boot from the disc1 cd and try to do the usual install the > only device options I'm given for fdisk are ad4 and ad6, which obviously > aren't a scsi array. Just the be sure I ran dmesg in the holographic shell > and it shows ad4 and ad6 as the two 80GB drives. So how do I install to the > raid array? > _______________________________________________ It doesn't work because the ataraid code in 5.4 doesn't understand the NVIDIA MediaShield metadata format. It is supported on HEAD and the RELENG_6 branch that will result in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. Take a look at the ataraid(4) manpage in HEAD and RELENG_6 for more information on how software RAID works and which metadata formats are supported. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC/MUYbHYXjKDtmC0RAkgjAKCo231AsVujIzjdRfo7FgN5uzPAKgCfUXG7 nfi7+BiUkY4wHq81hf81q28= =bUPK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050812154944.GB888>