Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:18:25 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootstrapping Message-ID: <20031103001825.GG52314@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200310312230.09619.adridg@cs.kun.nl> References: <200310272055.54288.adridg@cs.kun.nl> <20031028201317.GD50559@dragon.nuxi.com> <200310312200.06633.adridg@cs.kun.nl> <200310312230.09619.adridg@cs.kun.nl>
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Friday 31 October 2003 22:00, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > I'm wondering about the promise fasttrack 378 RAID controller. I picked up > > one (1) SATA drive, and stuck it to the promise connectors. While the > > controller sees the drive on bootup, once the kernel boots (and reports > > ata[234] on atapci1) there's no devices there to speak of. Is this a normal > > phenomenon? A driver issue? Have I been a moron to think that a RAID > > controller can also act like a plain ata bus? > > This was just me being foolish. The new slimmer cable doesn't obviate the need > for a 4-pin molex power connector. Doing newfs on the drive, though, gets me > a GPF panic, Stopped at getdirtybuf+0x2d: decl %eax. Guess it's NFS mount > then for the sources. I was able to create a RAID-1 using two SATA drives on an Asus SK8N. But that was with sources much newer than the snapshot you are using. Give it try with the snapshot I just uploaded.
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