Hi! Thanks for the info.
Thus to get ICH6R supported on 5.4 I need to load 5.4R onto one drive, apply the mk3 patch, recompile, reboot, build a release bootable CD, shutdown, reset the hardware to RAID1, and reload from the new CD. This ought to work like it does using 6.0-CURRENT-SNAP004 (which I am now happy with). The suggestion below to avoid sysinstall and craft the array by hand doesn't seem to use the hardware RAID1 supported by ICH6R. 1. How exactly do I know when a patch (mk3 in this case) is in a release? 2. If the above strategy makes sense, how can I get the latest mk3 for 5.4? 3. If I'm missing something, e.g. around sysinstall, what am I missing? (Sakurada-san suggested using atacontrol create.. to build ar0 with a degraded array (that I got to work), but if the above strategy works, I think this won't be necessary, unless again I'm missing something! 4. I'm leaning towards just using software RAID (gmirror) for this system, which must be a production system when it is up. Both 5.4 and 6.0 look hopeless for different reasons. Thoughts on this? Thanks for the help! -gayn > -----Original Message----- > From: "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:03 AM > To: Gayn Winters > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ICH6R RAID > > > "Gayn Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now man ata(4) indicates that only up to ICH5 is supported > in 5.4 while > > up to ICH6 is supported in 6.0, but the hardware archives > indicate that > > sos's MK3 patches made it into 5.4-RELEASE, and 6.0 "fully" > supports the > > ICH6R. However, I'm actually not sure the precise story here. > > 5.4 does not have MK3. > > > Has anyone out there actually booted FreeBSD using mirrored > SATA drives > > with an ICH6R? If so, how did you do it and what version > did you use? > > Nothing special. I started out with a hand-rolled bootable livecd of > -CURRENT with the MK3 patches when they first became available, and > did a manual install (no sysinstall, fdisk + disklabel + newfs + tar) > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
