From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 00:02:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985ED16A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:02:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FD2F43D5E for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:02:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noacks@swbell.net@70.240.205.64 with login) by smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Apr 2005 00:02:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9076121; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:02:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 38334-03; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:02:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from compgeek.noacks.org (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B4D610A; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:02:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by compgeek.noacks.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j3S02RkJ093112; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:02:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Message-ID: <42702812.1080705@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:02:26 -0500 From: Jonathan Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050406) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samuel Clements References: <427021F9.1010704@linkline.com> In-Reply-To: <427021F9.1010704@linkline.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 OpenPGP: id=991D8195; url=http://www.noacks.org/cert/noackjr.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: steven.glogger@ch.easynet.net cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA RAID 1 controllers for Intel board X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:02:33 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/05 18:36, Samuel Clements wrote: > Should work just fine with the integrated ICH5R if you CVSUP to > -CURRENT. sos@ has done major work to the ata code recently and I have > many of this exact machine up and running right now. I had to: > > Enable SATA RAID in the BIOS but define no raid > Install FreeBSD on ad4 (or the first disk) > CVSUP to current and rebuild kernel > edit your fstab and change all the ad4 (or whatever disk you installed > on) entries to ar0 > go into RAID BIOS and create a RAID from the first drive > > When it asks you how to create the array, choose Build and it'll copy > your first drive to the second drive, creating a mirror. > > reboot your machine and it should 'just work' Please do not top post. > Steven Glogger wrote: >> i'm fighting a little bit with a new intel server. >> i bought an intel SE7210TP1-E server with integrated RAID controller >> (SATA) >> and thought: nice, one box everything inside ,-) >> but it seems that the raid controller is not supported by any freebsd >> version (i would love to see it running on 5.x). >> on some posts i saw that the onboard controller is some kind of >> 'software-raid' - but i don't care ,-) >> anyhow, i didn't got this onboard raid controller (which seems to be an >> adaptec hostraid) working. >> (if someone knows how to do it: please mail! *beggin*). I was gonna say just define the array beforehand and use the latest 6.x snapshot ISO (http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/), but it looks like ATA mkIII didn't make it into the tree until 2 weeks after the last snapshot. Until the next snapshot is built it looks like you're stuck using the procedure Samuel described. - -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCcCgSUFz01pkdgZURAh0NAKC73kXVn1h7N+vNBIknQ6S1i7WX8gCgvYq9 u7SV0rk1f4+ZXHIZjUVlM08= =20Jm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----