I have a DFI Lanparty nf4 Ultra-D with two 80GB drives configured as a raid1 array. The bios lists the array as scsi-0 and claims that its healthy. When I boot from the disc1 cd and try to do the usual install the only device options I'm given for fdisk are ad4 and ad6, which obviously aren't a scsi array. Just the be sure I ran dmesg in the holographic shell and it shows ad4 and ad6 as the two 80GB drives. So how do I install to the raid array?
Hello, I am afraid the nvidia on-board raid controller is not supported. Take a look at hardware notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html You will have to use either supported raid controller or use software raid: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vinum&sektion=8 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gmirror&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ Cheers, Vladimir On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Brandon Fosdick wrote:> I have a DFI Lanparty nf4 Ultra-D with two 80GB drives configured as a raid1 > array. The bios lists the array as scsi-0 and claims that its healthy. When I > boot from the disc1 cd and try to do the usual install the only device > options I'm given for fdisk are ad4 and ad6, which obviously aren't a scsi > array. Just the be sure I ran dmesg in the holographic shell and it shows ad4 > and ad6 as the two 80GB drives. So how do I install to the raid array? > _______________________________________________ > 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" > >
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:45:31PM -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote:> I have a DFI Lanparty nf4 Ultra-D with two 80GB drives configured as a > raid1 array. The bios lists the array as scsi-0 and claims that its > healthy. When I boot from the disc1 cd and try to do the usual install the > only device options I'm given for fdisk are ad4 and ad6, which obviously > aren't a scsi array. Just the be sure I ran dmesg in the holographic shell > and it shows ad4 and ad6 as the two 80GB drives. So how do I install to the > raid array? > _______________________________________________It doesn't work because the ataraid code in 5.4 doesn't understand the NVIDIA MediaShield metadata format. It is supported on HEAD and the RELENG_6 branch that will result in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. Take a look at the ataraid(4) manpage in HEAD and RELENG_6 for more information on how software RAID works and which metadata formats are supported. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050812/eb4c2f1f/attachment.bin