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Date:      Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:43:51 +0200
From:      Tobias <c4@jolt.nu>
To:        "Torsten Jensen" <t.j@freenet.de>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HighPoint RocketRaid 454
Message-ID:  <5.2.1.1.0.20030921113935.00b5c8c0@jolt.nu>
In-Reply-To: <000101c37f71$251ebfb0$0200a8c0@toshiba>

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I found out how to fix this, the problem is that they havn't developed the 
driver yet for the 454 card... But you can use 404 driver's but without 
Raid 5 support (the weird part is that they mention the driver in their 
online manual).

http://rmd.mine.nu/~c4/hpt-driver/hpt374-5.0.ko
copy the file to /modules/ and rename it to hpt374.ko

Add it to /boot/loader.conf (this is the location in freebsd 4.8 atleast)
hpt374_load="YES"

When you reboot you will have them listed as da0 da1 da2...
If you have an raid0 you'll have da0 that is the raid size... nifty
And I get better speeds now... 50MB/s+ with 10% cpu used... abit much cpu 
usage but atleast it works

At 14:17 2003-09-20 +0200, you wrote:

>Hello Tobias,
>
>I have a RocketRaid 454 Controller. FreeBSD does not support the Raid
>funktion or I've a Problem, but the Controller was correctly listed. I
>use FreeBSD 5.0 and all Arrays (Mirror and Raid 5) was listed as normal
>Drives (ad4 & ad5 ...). All Arrays was not listed.
>
>At www.highpoint-tech.com is no Driver for FreeBSD available.
>
>Now I search a Driver or a FreeBSD Kerneloption for this Card.
>Have you everything read about this problem?
>
>Thanks
>
>Torsten Jensen
>
>
>At 10-Sep-2003 16:24:53, Tobias wrote:
> >Subject: HighPoint RocketRaid 454
> >From: Tobias <c4@jolt.nu>
> >Date: 10-Sep-2003 16:24:53
>
>
> >Hello, I know that this card has support in FreeBSD but I'm curious if
> >anyone has used them under heavy load in a RAID-5 configuration.
>
> >We're thinking of equipping two of these cards with 8 120GB Hitachi
>drives
> >and run it in an RAID-5 array for video material.
>
> >The usual data streams will likely be 2-3 streams at about 5-20MB/s
> >(totally) and I know that a single drive will handle that, but I'm
>unsure
> >if the HPT 454 is really stable in FreeBSD.
>
> >We'll be running this on a 4.8 installation.
>
> >Now to my questions...
> >Is the HPT 454 card & driver production stable?
> >Do you think that it will handle 60MB/s (read)?
> >Has anyone had a drive failure with this card and successfully replaced
>it
> >while the system was running or am I placing my hopes too high?



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