Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:12:22 +0100 From: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> To: "Andrew Stesin" <stesin@breaker.tormoz.net>, <questions@freebsd.org>, "Christopher Schulte" <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> Cc: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Q: FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT MB (Promise PDC2067 IDERAID) Message-ID: <200212061812.GB6ICYT04032@asarian-host.net> References: <127.0.0.1.2.20021206113547.0433e118@localhost>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Schulte" <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: "Andrew Stesin" <stesin@breaker.tormoz.net>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: Re: Q: FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT MB (Promise PDC2067 IDERAID) > > Especially interesting is how an onboard Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID > > controller works with FreeBSD - or better to say, does it work at all? > > What are the caveates with it, if any? How RAID configuration works? > > I had the same question (on 4.7) regarding the pdc20267. There were no > formal replies, so I asked Andrew privately. His response is below, > printed with permission, in case others search the archives for this > answer: Mine is not a formal reply either, of course. :) But I can personally vouch for the proper functionality of the PDC2067 RAID (on 4.7R). It is on my ASUS A7V333 board, and FreeBSD gave no problems whatsoever. I installed a RAID 1, and I could readily install and boot from it, and everything has been running smoothly ever since. The only "problem" I have, is that I have not been able yet to figure out a way to query the status of each individual, physical drive. But that is, of course, not a controller problem, but a software one. For Windoze they come with all kinds of cute utilities, but those are sadly absent for UNIX systems. I am still looking for a proper snmp agent; but, like I said, that has nothing to do with the functionality of the PDC2067. Having done a wee research before I bought the board, I saw that Linux had quite a bit of trouble with it. But FreeBSD handles everything perfectly. - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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