Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 13:59:55 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> Cc: yraffah@savola.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 RELEASE and Volume Managers Message-ID: <20060507115955.GA19932@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F5AA@royal64.emp.zapto.org> References: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F5AA@royal64.emp.zapto.org>
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On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 01:00:56PM +0200, Daniel Eriksson wrote.. > Yousef Raffah wrote: > > > The machine is a compaq server with Smart RAID controller > > Is the controller recognised by FreeBSD during startup? > > If it's a SmartArray 5xxx then the 'ciss' driver is the one you want: Or the ida(4) for the older SmartArrays. Like the DL380 (G1 model) for example has. ida(4) does not hook into the SCSI framework though. > ciss0: <Compaq Smart Array 5300> port ... > [...] > da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <COMPAQ RAID 5 VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > da0: 135.168MB/s transfers > da0: 105008MB (215056800 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 26355C) > > This is a real hardware RAID card, and it presents the array to the > system as a regular SCSI disk (da0 above). Just define your array from > the card's BIOS and make sure you are running a kernel that has 'ciss' > enabled (GENERIC has it by default). > > /Daniel Eriksson > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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