From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 22 18:30:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA96F16A41F for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:30:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com) Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D0B43D70 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:30:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com) Received: from royal64.emp.zapto.org (195.198.193.104) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43AA7C4C0002BD04; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:30:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:30:52 +0100 Message-ID: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F578@royal64.emp.zapto.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5? thread-index: AcYHFcw6JIqMnp5KSG2+k2VGn+URSgADHmcg From: "Daniel Eriksson" To: Cc: Joseph Kerian Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5? 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 Dec 2005 18:30:55 -0000 Joseph Kerian wrote: > Hmm... I have to ask if you (or anyone else) has actually done this.=20 > I attempted to run two Highpoint cards in the same machine about a > year ago, and the Highpoint driver became extremely confused. They > were nowhere near the same card (one was IDE, the other was a 1640), > but the driver seemed to be having difficulty seperating the drives. I'm running two RocketRAID 454 cards (4 channel ATA =3D 8 disks each) in one of my servers. There is however explicit support for doing this in the BIOS/firmware on these cards. > Only one of the setup screens would appear on boot. I tried different > combinations of PCI slot locations and specific instructions to the > driver to no avail. I ended up using g/vinum for the IDE drives. > I don't exactly remember the other card's model, but the 454=20 > looks likely. The disappearance of the BIOS/firmware config for your card(s) is not a FreeBSD problem unfortunately. It has to do with how resources are allocated by the motherboard's BIOS. I have a Tyan Tiger 2466M mobo myself (dual Athlon MP) that I have populated with a SCSI card, a dual port Gbit NIC and two RocketRAID 454 cards. To get it to boot I had to use a jumper to forcefully disable the onboard 100Mbit NIC. And I still cannot boot off of a floppy without first disconnecting at least one of the cards. You could try to update the BIOS on your motherboard. Some motherboards also allows you to disable BIOS/firmware loading for certain PCI slots. This could help free up some resources for cards that you don't boot from. /Daniel Eriksson