Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:19:43 +0100 From: Fluffles <etc@fluffles.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get nForce4 SATA RAID working Message-ID: <440EBDCF.7090309@fluffles.net>
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Anyone can help me please? -------- Original Message -------- Hi guys! I hope you can help me with this, i've been at it for hours now. I want to use my RAID array (striping or mirroring) for FreeBSD. But the problem is: it doesn't work properly. My config: Asrock K8NF4G-SATA2 - nVidia GeForce 6100 chipset - nVidia nForce 410 MCP - Socket 939 2 * Hitachi 160GB SATA drives My problem: when i boot with FreeBSD 6.0-i386 i get: pci0: <mass storage, RAID> at device 14.0 (no driver attached) when i boot with FreeBSD 6.1-beta3-i386, after seeing "ad4" the system gets locked. When i boot in Safe Mode, it succesfully boots but i do see: ad4: 157066MB <Hitachi blablabla> at ata2-master SATA150 stray irq7 ar0: WARNING - mirror protection lost. RAID1 array in DEGRADED mode ar0: 157066MB <nVidia Mediashield RAID1> status: DEGRADED ar0: disk0 DOWN no device found for this subdisk ar0: disk1 READY using ad4 at ata2-master It's not degraded though, it just does not detect the second disk. Instead, the message "stray irq7" gets printed. I think something is going wrong here, a small bug, which prevents from detecting BOTH drives. According to ataraid manpage, the nForce4 "MediaShield" onboard RAID driver should be supported. Could this be a bug in FreeBSD? I have tested TWO mainboards (same type) and two different HDDs (maxtor/hitachi) and different SATA cables. In Windows the RAID array works fine! So this *really* must be a software issue. The only thing i haven't tried yet is updating my BIOS. Anyone has any suggestions? Thanks a lot!! - Veronica
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