Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:35:14 +0400 From: "Eugeny Kuzakov" <coredumped@coredumped.org.ru> To: "Alex Zbyslaw" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sil3112 question Message-ID: <146805bd0607111035u6580d7b1k4cc7ed0bbf894ad7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44B3AB3E.6050602@dial.pipex.com> References: <146805bd0607100055h64d7e8e9i39e3bc02ce05658e@mail.gmail.com> <44veq4wa3v.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <44B3AB3E.6050602@dial.pipex.com>
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On 7/11/06, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Er, no, unless I am much mistaken it doesn't imply that at all (see man > ataraid). FreeBSD handles plenty of "software" (metadata only) RAIDs, > though I believe that an archive search will turn up that the sil3112 is > possibly the worst such RAID ever and was a poor choice of RAID card, > however cheap. Try google. SiL are listed among the controllers > supported by ataraid on 6.1 so I would expect the RAID to be recognised > even if it performed badly. Of course you are right in all the points!:( I know it now, at the moment of buy I didn't know what chip is used in the Tekram TR-822.. I was very surprised when I see chip name... I don'e think that is the solution worst, but problem is different metadata formats in different BIOSes... Initially I asked who uses sil3112 and hasn't pronlems:) Today I will try to update flash bios to some older version, but it's designed for linux... I hope FreeBSD driver recongnise it's metadata format... I've not used such a RAID so perhaps some specific action with > atacontrol is required. I see at least two problems: 1. If I create raid1 or raid0 using atacontrol create bla-bla-bla then I see new device -- ar0. After paririoning&labeling I try to newfs it... FreeBSD hungs in same moment without any warnings... 2. If I create raid1 or raid0 using bios utility of sil3112 then FreeBSD driver doesn'y recognise this metadata. It's just see disk drives and nothing more....:( -- Best wishes, Coredumped.
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