From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 16:18:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC8716A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:18:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1F043FB1 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA30IRfY055172; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id hA30IQm4055171; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:18:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:18:25 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Adriaan de Groot Message-ID: <20031103001825.GG52314@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200310272055.54288.adridg@cs.kun.nl> <20031028201317.GD50559@dragon.nuxi.com> <200310312200.06633.adridg@cs.kun.nl> <200310312230.09619.adridg@cs.kun.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200310312230.09619.adridg@cs.kun.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootstrapping X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:18:32 -0000 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.