Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:22:47 +0100 From: Rob <robert@irrelevant.com> To: Joao Barros <joaobarros@netcabo.pt> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3b7 and ata raid1 - how? Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20041020151406.028a9ec0@albert> In-Reply-To: <41764968.2050301@netcabo.pt> References: <6.1.2.0.0.20041020115046.0560bec0@albert> <41764968.2050301@netcabo.pt>
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At 12:18 20/10/2004, Joao Barros wrote: >Hi, > >Your problem is that the controller is an entry level RAID controller.=20 >What you get with that controller is software RAID in certain=20 >enviroments(Windows) >More info here: http://www.siliconimage.com/products/sii0680.asp >Someone had already raised this question, you can check the solution(one=20 >possible) here:=20 >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-November/005141.html > >Hope that helped :) > >Jo=E3o Barros. hi there; thanks for the quick reply. The page from the archive states to use atacontrol to set up the raid. If= =20 you check my question again, you will see that I have already tried this,=20 and although after creating ar0 with atacontrol it shows "ready" to=20 `atacontrol status ar0`, after a reboot it has vanished again. There is=20 definitely a lack of persistence in settings from this command now. While I appreciate that this is a cheap, software raid card, it HAS worked= =20 with FreeBSD 4.10, and also with 5.2, as long as I did that initial=20 `atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6`, so I presume something in ata or=20 atacontrol has changed recently - certainly it was very broken for 5.2.1,=20 not allowing me to even boot an installation CD, so I presume there has=20 been recent work in this area? Thanks, Rob >Rob wrote: > >>Hi! >> >>I'm trying to set up a new machine, from 5.3b7 ISOs. This machine has a= =20 >>SiL 0680 based IDE RAID1 card in it, on which I have two 80Gb Maxtor=20 >>drives - ad4 and ad6. >> >>I have set up the mirroring in the IDE card's BIOS, however FreeBSD does= =20 >>not recognise the raid, instead presenting me with an installation target= =20 >>of ad4 or ad6. >> >>This was the same under 4.10, however I just installed a minimum system=20 >>on ad4, ran `atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6` and re-ran installation,=20 >>whereupon it spotted ar0 and offered me this as an installation=20 >>target. Under 5.3b7 this is not happening: Although `atacontrol status= =20 >>ar0` reports READY immediately after creating the raid, after doing this= =20 >>and just rebooting into the minimum system again the same command shows=20 >>Device not configured. >> >>Is ata RAID1 therefore broken on 5.3b7 ?? This is straight off the ISOs= =20 >>downloaded a few days ago, so no custom options have been set, and the=20 >>minimum system is just running GENERIC. >> >>(5.2.1 failed to work at all, causing a kernel panic immediately after=20 >>detecting the 0680 when booting from the CD or an installed system.) >> >>Hardware is a Celeron 1GHz, M758LMRE motherboard (PC Chips?), AMI BIOS,=20 >>plenty of RAM. There are TWO SiL 0680 cards present, but currently only=20 >>the first has any drives attached. (This is to be a new fileserver, with= =20 >>multiple drives, although only the one RAID1 array is planned, for system= =20 >>and most important files.) >> >>Any assistance would be most appreciated. >> >>Rob O'Donnell.
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