Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:26:42 +0000 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com> Cc: Claude Khalil <c.khalil@webmatique.ca>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems Message-ID: <200702151927.l1FJR0aQ094039@gidgate.gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <45D4ACB2.6070904@freebsdsystems.com> References: <45CB3C43.8060606@webmatique.ca> <45D47785.5020806@freebsdsystems.com> <200702151554.l1FFs7Hk091847@gidgate.gid.co.uk> <45D4ACB2.6070904@freebsdsystems.com>
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At 18:55 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote: >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. That box is running i386 but I don't see why it would make a difference. I did have to do the usual 'atacontrol create' from fixit before installing to persuade sysinstall to see ar0. It really is all working, we had a drive fail and I did the hot swap and 'atacontrol rebuild' thing. >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,0x40f4-0x40f7,0x40d0-0x40d7,0x40f0-0x40f3,0x4020-0x403 >>f 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 >>------------------------------ -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 956 1248 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 958 9005 mobile +44 (0)783 626 4518
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