I purchased a Sil680 IDE RAID controller, and have setup a mirrored RAID array. My problem is, FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9 GENERIC does not recognize them as one disk. I checked the hardware notes, and "Sil680 UDMA6" is listed. I have one ad4 and one ad6 disk. (I can see same partition and data on both of them) Finally, the mirroring works fine but if the ad4 disk goes wrong, the BSD can't mount the root disk from ad6.(boot is OK) Is there anyway to get the FreeBSD to recognize my RAID array? Thanks Zsolt Bognar
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:49, Bogn?r Zsolt wrote:> I purchased a Sil680 IDE RAID controller, and have setup a mirrored RAID > array. > My problem is, FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9 GENERIC does not recognize them as one > disk. > I checked the hardware notes, and "Sil680 UDMA6" is listed.That could mean that it works as a standard IDE controller, not necessarily as a RAID controller.> I have one ad4 and one ad6 disk. (I can see same partition and data on both > of them) > Finally, the mirroring works fine but if the ad4 disk goes wrong, the BSD > can't mount the root disk from ad6.(boot is OK) > > Is there anyway to get the FreeBSD to recognize my RAID array?Not too much help I'm afraid, but I wasn't confident in the abilities of such a cheap controller (mine cost me GBP ?20, about USD $30) to work well, particularly with FreeBSD. I just set mine into "standard IDE contoller" mode (there was a jumper on the board to control this), and have set up a mirrored RAID 1 with vinum. So far it's running fine like this. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/w1oPF8Iu1zN5WiwRAs1SAKCnDDGkdTan9XhMPRewuIF4mArmBwCfQdDZ jXGIawKPy/aLSK7kT6has8k=yBw/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 11:49, Bogn?r Zsolt wrote:> I purchased a Sil680 IDE RAID controller, and have setup a mirrored RAID > array. > My problem is, FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9 GENERIC does not recognize them as one > disk. > I checked the hardware notes, and "Sil680 UDMA6" is listed. > > I have one ad4 and one ad6 disk. (I can see same partition and data on both > of them) > Finally, the mirroring works fine but if the ad4 disk goes wrong, the BSD > can't mount the root disk from ad6.(boot is OK) > > Is there anyway to get the FreeBSD to recognize my RAID array?You have to set up your RAID with atacontrol. See ata and atacontrol. -Harry> > Thanks > > Zsolt Bognar > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20031125/af84c752/attachment.bin