Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:24:53 -0500 From: Pete <pete-freebsd-hackers@toscano.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible? Message-ID: <20030308162453.GB1436@bubba.toscano.org>
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Hello, I've been posting about this since the beginning on the year. A few times on freebsd-questions, once on freebsd-hackers, and submitted a PR (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48165). I have never found a solution beyond replacing FreeBSD with Linux. (Which is not something I'd like to do, but know I can, if need be. I'm trying to learn about FreeBSD, not Linux.) The main problem seems to be that I cannot have more than two IDE drives on a Promise IDE card (or cards, for that matter). They work fine with two drives attached. The actual drive attached, where it's attached, and the card it's attached to does not seem to matter. However things are configured, whatever drive is enumerated as ar2 cannot be accessed by disklabel (and vinum and possibly other disk-level utils). Please see my original post at: http://news.gw.com/freebsd.questions/122487. I really hope somebody can help me with this. I'm more than willing to try things and provide whatever debugging info you'd like to see. I currently have all my data on ar0, but a lot of that is digital photos that I don't want to trust to the health of just one drive. I really want to get ar1 and ar2 working as a mirrored volume and move all the data to this, but FreeBSD (and, most likely, my corresponding lack of knowledge) has kept me from doing this. I _really_ don't want to move to Linux, but I've been trying to solve this problem for over three months now and if I can't get FreeBSD to do it. I know I can get Linux to do it. Please don't let it come to that. I'm just very frustrated and tried every avenue I know of. Thanks, pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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