Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:37:56 -0600 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> Cc: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers Message-ID: <11167f521003110037o760b6387p58fecb6bfd066b2e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B98A0B5.4010006@eskk.nu> References: <4B980792.3050103@eskk.nu> <4B981934.9090904@comcast.net> <4B98A0B5.4010006@eskk.nu>
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> wrote: > > > On 2010-03-10 23:12, Steve Polyack wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > > I installed with the 2 disks connected to the controller that was found by > Freebsd. Then I added siis_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf. > Power down the machine and connected 4 drives to the 3124 controller. Upon > restart I created a RAID5 set with the 4 drives in the controllers bios. > Booted into FreeBSD but the RAID5 was not detected only the individual > disks. > > This controller obviously does not work as expected. I need a suggestion on > a not to expensive RAID controller that is supported by FreeBSD so that I > can get the RAID5 set to work. > Thanks > /Leslie there were a bunch of sata and siis commits after the release of 8.0 I would suggest maybe trying RELENG_8
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