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Subject: RE: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Eugene Hercun
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:26 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
> 
> 
> Well, I downloaded the boot floppies from the most current snapshot
> which was dated May 18. Anyway, I booted my system up, and still no
> luck in the dmesg =(. I even started the 'Standard' installation to
> see if it would give me the choice to configure ar0; unfortunately,
> ad4, and ad6 were the only options.
> 

You absolutely must e-mail Soren on this right away.  The
driver developers rarely get a user with a problem who is clueful
enough to give them usable feedback.

> Now I'm going to quickly swap my card for the adaptec and see 
> what happens.
>

Make sure to delete the array and data on disks completely, then
recreate it with the BIOS on the 1200a card.
 
> I still find it very odd that my card isn't working properly with the
> OS.

I don't.  IDE raid support in FreeBSD is very, very young.

> Maybe the card is faulty?
> 

More likely the driver has a problem.

Ted