From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 19 20:51:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from refuge.Colorado.EDU (refuge.Colorado.EDU [128.138.196.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF9F37B409 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from refuge.Colorado.EDU (orrie@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by refuge.Colorado.EDU (8.10.1/8.10.1/UnixOps+Hesiod) with ESMTP id g5K3otA14105 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:50:55 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200206200350.g5K3otA14105@refuge.Colorado.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ATA RAID question Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:50:53 -0600 From: Orrie Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, We have a Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW motherboard with the AMD 760MPX chipset and the onboard Promise Fasttrack 100 IDE-RAID with Maxtor 160GB drives. When booting off the 4.6 iso image, the install will panic during the boot process if the drives are left connected to the onboard promise ATA 100 IDE-RAID. If we disconnect all drives from the onboard promise ATA 100 IDE RAID and only hook up a drive to the master IDE controller on the motherboard, we can boot up and install 4.6. Then, when we reattach the 160 GB drives to the onboard promise ATA 100 IDE RAID controller the system will crash during bootup after displaying several messages similar to the following (there is one for each drive): ad0 maxtor 4G160J8 Read command Timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting trying fallback to PIO mode ata3: resetting devices then a kernel panic will occur (on 4.5-RELEASE-p6 it would boot up but these drives would be stuck in PIO mode and therefore be terribly slow). As indicated in the 4.6 release notes, we tried setting hw.ata.tags="1" in /boot/loader.conf to no avail. Unfortunately this setup is working fine under Linux meaning my boss wants me to switch. I'm desperate to try anything to get this to work with FreeBSD since I can't stand linux. From some searches, it seems the onboard Promise ATA 100 IDE-RAID may not be supported under FreeBSD? Can anyone confirm/deny this? I don't need the RAID functionality to work but I do need all the disks to function properly as independent disks (tried turning off the RAID in the BIOS but it didn't help). Any thoughts? thanks. Orrie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message