On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:24:36PM -0700, Bill Blue wrote: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:22:48 -0700, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > >> > > ad6* were the only new devices seen in the OS. > >> > >> > If FreeBSD supports the device, you should see an ar0 device. > >> > >> > Do you have the ataraid(4) driver loaded, or built into your kernel? > >> > >> > >> Alternatively, are you sure you have identified your hardware correctly? > >> > >> According to Supermicro here > >> > >> <http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/875/P4SCT.cfm> > >> > >> the P4SCT has an Intel 6300ESB onboard RAID controller, which according to > >> this page > >> > >> > >> <http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=eoyraid&page=2&cookie%5Ftest=1> > >> > >> is based upon the ICH4, and not Adaptec controller. And, unless I've > >> missed it, this controller is not supported. > > > > The ata(4) manual page lists the 6300ESB as supported. The ataraid(4) > > manual only lists the "Intel MatrixRAID" metadata format as supported. > > > > Roland > > Roland, Greg, > > Thanks for the replies. The Intel 6300ESB (aka Hance Rapids I/O > Controller Hub) serves as a controller for USB 2.0, UDMA100 and > SATA150 devices. Separately of that, there's the Adaptec embedded > SATA with Hostraid controller driver which comes into play if you > activate RAID in the BIOS. > > Since they refer to it as Adaptec's Hostraid controller, it looks like > ataraid(4) should support it.
Looks like it. > And Nooooo, I didn't have ataraid defined in my kernel. It was, but > for some reason it isn't now. I'll uh, have to add and rebuild. > Thanks for pointing out my error. Or you could load the module that is built (in the GENERIC kernel, at least). Putting ataraid_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf should work. > Now, when the ar0s1a-f devices do show up, does the boot device > actually get changed from ad4* to ar0* or do I need to boot single > user while it's talking to ad4* and change the mount points and > reboot? I've never played much with changing boot devices. Me neither :-) I created the RAID1 array in the BIOS, and picked ar0 in sysinstall. I guess you'd have to look in the loader(8) manual and chapter 12 of the Handbook. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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