Dear FreeBSD hackers, I have posted this question to FreeBSD-questions earlier, but got no reply. So I try here.
I'm having trouble getting my on-board Promise controller to work. I can use atacontrol to build an array, but sysinstall won't detect the disk pack. Could this be a problem with the fact that I use 2x80GB (Western Digital) disk? Are they perhaps too large for the controller to understand? LikeEver# uname -a FreeBSD LikeEver.kjkoster.org 4.9-RC FreeBSD 4.9-RC #51: Fri Oct 3 23:13:50 CEST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIKEEVER i386 LikeEver# dmesg | egrep -i "ata|ad[0-9]" Preloaded splash_image_data "/boot/splash.bmp" at 0xc03f2190. atapci0: <Promise ATA100 controller> port 0xdc00-0xdc3f,0xe000-0xe003,0xe400-0xe407,0xe800-0xe803,0xec00-0xec07 mem 0xdffe0000-0xdfffffff irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0 ata2: at 0xec00 on atapci0 ata3: at 0xe400 on atapci0 atapci1: <VIA 8233 ATA100 controller> port 0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 17.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1 ad0: 14655MB <Maxtor 51536U3> [29777/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 ad2: 14655MB <Maxtor 51536U3> [29777/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA66 ar0: 76293MB <ATA RAID1 array> [9726/255/63] status: READY subdisks: 0 READY ad4: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00ETA0> [155061/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 1 READY ad6: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00ETA0> [155061/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a LikeEver# atacontrol delete 0 LikeEver# atacontrol create stripe 512 ad4 ad6 ar0 created LikeEver# atacontrol status 0 ar0: ATA RAID0 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY LikeEver# _ Unfortunately, sysinstall won't see the disk pack at all. It just gives me ad0 and ad2. Building the disk array from the (rather useless) BIOS utility does not help. This is where I get lost. Anything I have missed? The mainboard is an MSI K7T266 Pro2. Thank you in advance, Kees Jan --------------------------------------------------------------- Kees Jan Koster e-mail: kjkoster "at" kjkoster.org www: http://www.kjkoster.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Life is uncertain; eat dessert first. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"