Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 07:32:56 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Glover <tomg@egg.net> To: Freddie Cash <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise SX6000 controller Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0404010723480.70252@enema.egg.net> In-Reply-To: <1620.24.71.128.221.1080804901.squirrel@mailtest.sd73.bc.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401160732440.63061@enema.egg.net><Pine.BSF.4.58.0402050804340.14155@enema.egg.net> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0403311729020.13223@enema.egg.net> <1620.24.71.128.221.1080804901.squirrel@mailtest.sd73.bc.ca>
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Freddie Cash wrote: > > Before I go beat my head against the proverbial wall - again .... > > > Any tips on installing 5.2.1 using this controller? Any tricks to > > making it bootable? In fact is it possible to make it bootable? Interestingly I can install 5.2.1 just fine on a RAID 1 using the sx6000. However it won't boot - just stops after the "Verifying DMI Pool Data" prompt. I can however boot on floppy and it sees the sx6000 as pst0: Then I can specify usb:pst0s1a as the boot device at the mountroot> prompt at which time it boots off the sx6000. I wonder if I have a BIOS issue. Anyone have any ideas? > > Last time I looked at the Promise cards, they weren't actually > hardware RAID cards. Instead, they were a hybrid software / hardware > card that did most of the RAID work in the driver. IOW, you had to > load a kernel, load a driver, then mount the drive array in order to > get the RAID array accessible. This meant you couldn't put / (or at > least /boot) onto the RAID array. > > There may be tricks to get around this but I didn't spend much time on > it. I just returned the Promise cards and replaced them with 3Ware > Escalade cards which do real hardware RAID and let you put / onto the > RAID array. I believe the sx6000 is a hardware RAID solution. > > -- > Freddie Cash > fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca > -- Tom Glover
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