Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:12:04 -0500 From: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers Message-ID: <4B981934.9090904@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4B980792.3050103@eskk.nu> References: <4B980792.3050103@eskk.nu>
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On 03/10/10 15:56, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8-RELEASE on a machine with an Abit > aw8-max MB. This MB has a built in SiI 3132 RAID controller. I also > have an addon card with a SiI 3124 RAID controller. > > The problem is that I can see the 2 disks and the RAID1 set that I > want to use for the system if I connect the disks to the built in 3132 > controller. But if I connect the disks to the 3124 controller and > create a RAID1 set, only the disks can be seen. > > I need to be able to use both controllers because I've got four disks > that I want to build a RAID5 set on one of the controllers. > > Can anyone shed some light on this. Via Google I've read some articles > about these controllers and I'm aware that I might have to rethink > because of lacking support for the 3124 controller. > > I've read in the ata man page that parameters can be added to > /boot/device.hints but I'm not sure how to handle this during > installation. > > /Leslie > > Are you using the default ata(4) driver that FreeBSD-8 boots with, or are you loading the siis(4) module at boot? If you are using the ata(4) driver, you should try enabling the siis(4) driver by placing 'siis_load="YES"' in /boot/loader.conf. Beware that the names of your disks will transition from ad -> ada and will likely be renumbered as well. The siis(4) driver overall has a much richer feature set. I have several 3124 controllers which work great with it, but I have never tried using the controllers RAID - I simply use them as disk controllers and then pool the disks using ZFS.
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