Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:08:40 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: "Conall O'Brien" <conallob=freebsd@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Miata Based File Server... Message-ID: <20050511220839.GN59593@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20050511215858.GA8783@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20050511215858.GA8783@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:58:58PM +0100, Conall O'Brien wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm currently building a fileserver based on a 433MHz Miata Personal > Workstation. I currently have it running 4.11-RELEASE before I upgrade > to RELENG_5 from CVS in the coming days. > > > I have an LSI MegaRAID 150-6 SATA RAID card combined with 4 x 250GB > Hitachi SATA disks I wish to setup as a RAID5 array. The controller > is appearing with the amr driver as amr0 during boot up, as expected. > > > My problem is as follows. How can I access the MegaRAID card to create > my RAID5 array since the PWS doesn't give me access to the MegaRAID BIOS > via the Ctrl+M hotkey during th eboot up phase? > > > Unfortunately, the PWS is the only system I have with a 64 bit PCI slot, > which the MegaRAID card requires. 64bit PCI cards and slots are backward compatible. You can put a 64bit card into a 32 bit slot as well, you just need a slot where the 64bit extension don't physicaly collide. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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