Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:30:52 +0100 From: "Daniel Eriksson" <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: Joseph Kerian <jkerian@gmail.com> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5? Message-ID: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F578@royal64.emp.zapto.org>
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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
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