From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 23:52:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB8116A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:52:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4D043D60 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:52:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0E4AE72DF4; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:52:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBD872DD4; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:52:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:52:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Crist=F3v=E3o_Dalla_Costa?= In-Reply-To: <41B665AF.7060509@smsweb.com.br> Message-ID: <20041210154536.T63382@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <41B665AF.7060509@smsweb.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing 5.3 on Promise FastTrack 378 and Intel raid controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:52:27 -0000 On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Crist=F3v=E3o Dalla Costa wrote: > We got a new P4 server today with an Asus PC-DL deluxe motherboard w/ > Intel 875P chipset which we were disappointed to find sucks with > respect to the RAID controllers. > > We managed to boot the FreeBSD installation using floppies, and when we > get to the partitioning screen we are shown 5 disks, while we actually > only have four (4 serial ata 120 GB drives). We configured two in raid-1 > and two in raid-0 in each of the raid controllers, and all disks that > appear in the setup are 120 GB while we were expecting to find a 240 GB > one corresponding to the raid-0 setup. You set up the arrays in the BIOS prior to booting FreeBSD? If they were detected you should have a number of ar# devices to choose from. The Promise controllers tend to be better supported than other ATA RAID variants, but FreeBSD has to rely on the RAID metadata stored on the disk. BIOS vendors are free to change the metadata format, and obviously FreeBSD has no way of knowing whether a given system is using one of these custom formats. I would suggest trying to boot in verbose mode (boot -v) and look for the metadata probes and see if it is complaining about a specific one. You might also check that FreeBSD is actually detecting your Promise controller as RAID capable or if its just showing up as a generic ATA controller. If you are just doing simple mirroring you can use atacontrol to set up FreeBSD-style ATA RAID partitions. The RAID controller BIOS won't know whats going on but it will otherwise work. Boot the install CD then go into the fixit menu and mount CD #2. You will then have access to the atacontrol program to set up the volumes. Once done there, boot off the install CD again and the ar devices should appear. Once you get installed post the output of 'dmesg' and 'pciconf -lv'; these may help in debugging the issue. --=20 Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org