Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 00:29:08 +0200 From: "Boyan Nedkov" <bnedkov@zonnet.nl> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: onboard RAID controller (Asus A7V333) Message-ID: <000e01c20697$180a6d00$ab01a8c0@wagner> In-Reply-To: <20020527194455.72b650c6.jud@myrealbox.com>
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Hoy Jud, Thanks for you answer, I continue trying to get my system working, but without any success jet. First my details: - A7V333 & 2 HDD Maxtor 60GB (Promise IDE1/IDE2, master/master) - mainboard/junper RAID_EN -> [1-2] Enabled - BIOS/Advanced/PCI_Configuration/On_board_ATA_device_First -> [YES] - BIOS/Boot/4_Other_boot_Device -> [SCSI/On board ATA boot..] - IDE1 primary/master -> cd-dvdrom - IDE2 primary/master -> HDD 250MB (no OS installed, just for testing purpose] - boot order: [floppy]/IDE HDD -> [disabled] /[cd-dvdrom]/[SCSI/On board ATA boot..] - RAID-0 set up by Promise BIOS, 'RAID-0 functional' displayed after rebooting - Promise driver: MBFastTrack133 Lite BIOS ver 2.00.1.23 - after rebooting the driver above reports: 2+0 Stripe 120080M ... Functional I've downloaded (ftp) and burned on cd the FBSD 4.5 Release and trying to install it from bootable cd taking the option "Standard installation" Case 1: RAID-0 & CD-DVD only After first few screens following message is displayed: "No disk found. Verify that your controller is being properly brobed at boot time ...". During the booting procedure a lot of stuff is displayed on the screen, but it's quite difficult to get something because it's really fast going (is there any way to save that to a log file booting from cd???) Case 2: RAID-0 & CD-DVD & additional HDD as secondary master The additional HDD is found as ad2 and I can play with it as a single disk - the RAID-0 disk is not found, and I'm wondering why then the disk found is named ad2; it seams the RAID is also found (perhaps as ad0 or/and ad1) but not displayed ??? Case 3: RAID-0 & CD-DVD & HDD (same like case 2), but booting from Win98 start floppy and checking what's going on with FDISK. As result both disks (HDD & RAID-0) are found, HDD as disk 1, RAID-0 as disk 2. Creating partition on RAID-0 is ok, but when I try to make it active I just get message that only disk 1 (HDD) can have active partitions. That's it. Any more ideas ??? Would be appreciated :-) Boyan > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Jud > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 1:45 AM > To: Boyan Nedkov > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: onboard RAID controller (Asus A7V333) > > > On Mon, 27 May 2002 23:23:04 +0200 > "Boyan Nedkov" <bnedkov@home.nl> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the hope, Jud :-) > > It's good to hear that at least one system works in that mode > > I checked again all the stuff but I didn't find anything wrong, so > > could you pls give me some more details about your hardware/bios > > configuration, like: > > - do you have any other HDD's installed > > - HDD's are connected to Promise ports, or ... > > - HDD's are master/master or one is master, the other is slave > > - FBSD is the only OS, or ... > > - are there any special bios settings ?? > > - some other stuff I could miss ?? > > Please fill free to send me a personal mail in case you think that > > issue could be boring for the list > > Ah, they'll love this stuff on the list. ;) > > Setup: 2 IBM ATA100 40gb HDs connected to Promise ports, > master/master IIRC. Other two ports are Pioneer ATA66 > DVD-ROM as primary master and IBM ATA66 20gb HD as secondary > master. Win2K (first slice) and FreeBSD (second slice) each > get half the RAID-0 array. Win98 and QNX share the 20gb drive. > > No special BIOS settings - just have the RAID array set as > the second boot option after floppy, and there's also another > BIOS setting to allow booting from the onboard SCSI/ATA > device. Do I assume correctly you went into the Promise BIOS > and set up your RAID-0 array, and that you're told on bootup > the array is functional? There's a jumper to enable/disable > the RAID functionality, but (1) it's enabled by default, and > (2) if you've enabled the array in the Promise BIOS, then the > jumper's obviously in the right place. > > You *are* doing the RAID in the Promise BIOS, not Windows > "software RAID," right? How are you attempting to install 4.5? > > Jud > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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