From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 08:08:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113571065673 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:08:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D491D8FC14 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D715093D; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:08:18 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0IpY7y1YhRl9; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:08:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtp-auth.unixathome.org (smtp-auth.unixathome.org [10.4.7.7]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 644635089E ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:08:14 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4C47FC69.40805@langille.org> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:08:09 -0400 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Sprickman References: <4C47B57F.5020309@langille.org> <4C47E610.2040409@langille.org> <4C47EC47.5090000@yandex.ru> <4C47ED09.7020808@langille.org> <4C47F4F1.8030804@langille.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adam Vande More , "Andrey V. Elsukov" , freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:08:19 -0000 On 7/22/2010 4:03 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: > >> On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: >>> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: >>> >>>> On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >>>>> On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: >>>>>> I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: >>>>>> >>>>>> atapci0: port 0xdc00-0xdc0f mem >>>>>> 0xfbeffc00-0xfbeffc7f,0xfbef0000-0xfbef7fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on >>>>>> pci7 >>>>>> >>>>>> atapci1: port 0xac00-0xac0f mem >>>>>> 0xfbbffc00-0xfbbffc7f,0xfbbf0000-0xfbbf7fff irq 19 at device 4.0 on >>>>>> pci3 >>>>>> >>>>>> I added ahci_load="YES" to loader.conf and rebooted. Now I see: >>>>> >>>>> You can add siis_load="YES" to loader.conf for SiI 3124. >>>> >>>> Ahh, thank you. >>>> >>>> I'm afraid to do that now, before I label my ZFS drives for fear that >>>> the ZFS array will be messed up. But I do plan to do that for the >>>> system after my plan is implemented. Thank you. :) >>> >>> You may even get hotplug support if you're lucky. :) >>> >>> I just built a box and gave it a spin with the "old" ata stuff and then >>> with the "new" (AHCI) stuff. It does perform a bit better and my BIOS >>> claims it supports hotplug with ahci enabled as well... Still have to >>> test that. >> >> Well, I don't have anything to support hotplug. All my stuff is internal. >> >> http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs430.ash1/23778_106837706002537_100000289239443_171753_3508473_n.jpg >> > > The frankenbox I'm testing on is a retrofitted 1U (it had a scsi > backplane, now has none). > > I am not certain, but I think with 8.1 (which it's running) and all the > cam integration stuff, hotplug is possible. Is a special backplane > required? I seriously don't know... I'm going to give it a shot though. > > Oh, you also might get NCQ. Try: > > [root@h21 /tmp]# camcontrol tags ada0 > (pass0:ahcich0:0:0:0): device openings: 32 # camcontrol tags ada0 (pass0:siisch2:0:0:0): device openings: 31 resending with this: ada{0..4} give the above. # camcontrol tags ada5 (pass5:ahcich0:0:0:0): device openings: 32 That's part of the gmirror array for the OS, along with ad6 which has similar output. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/