Re: Highpoint rocketRaid 454 RAID mgmt software on freeBSD 5.3, has anyone got it running?
Joachim Dagerot wrote: On 2005-08-09 Björn König wrote: I use this software successfully, even with FreeBSD 5.4. Satisfied? ;-) Great to know. I never managed to get the drivers to run on 5.4 (Never tried anything advanced though, Highpoint is developing a native 5.4 driver right now) Actually I use the RR1640 which has same chipset, but a different driver. What tasks did you have to do to get the management software to run on your machine? I get loads of missing lib files (so-files) when I start the srvdaemon. Install the port misc/compat4x or the package compat4x-i386. Björn -- Björn König ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) student at the Technische Universität Berlin http://bkoenig.alpha-tierchen.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Highpoint rocketRaid 454 RAID mgmt software on freeBSD 5.3, has anyone got it running?
I use this software successfully, even with FreeBSD 5.4. Satisfied? ;-) Great to know. I never managed to get the drivers to run on 5.4 (Never tried anything advanced though, Highpoint is developing a native 5.4 driver right now) Actually I use the RR1640 which has same chipset, but a different driver. What tasks did you have to do to get the management software to run on your machine? I get loads of missing lib files (so-files) when I start the srvdaemon. Install the port misc/compat4x or the package compat4x-i386. Great, thanks alot, works like a charm. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Highpoint rocketRaid 454 RAID mgmt software on freeBSD 5.3, has anyone got it running?
Has anyone suceeded in getting Highpoint rocketRaid 454 RAID mgmt software to run on freeBSD 5.3? No matter if it's the GUI or CLI versions. //Joachim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Highpoint rocketRaid 454 RAID mgmt software on freeBSD 5.3, has anyone got it running?
Joachim Dagerot wrote: Has anyone suceeded in getting Highpoint rocketRaid 454 RAID mgmt software to run on freeBSD 5.3? No matter if it's the GUI or CLI versions. I use this software successfully, even with FreeBSD 5.4. Satisfied? ;-) Björn -- Björn König ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) student at the Technische Universität Berlin http://bkoenig.alpha-tierchen.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Highpoint rocketRaid 454 RAID mgmt software on freeBSD 5.3, has anyone got it running?
On 2005-08-09 Björn König wrote: Joachim Dagerot wrote: Has anyone suceeded in getting Highpoint rocketRaid 454 RAID mgmt software to run on freeBSD 5.3? No matter if it's the GUI or CLI versions. I use this software successfully, even with FreeBSD 5.4. Satisfied? ;-) Great to know. I never managed to get the drivers to run on 5.4 (Never tried anything advanced though, Highpoint is developing a native 5.4 driver right now) What tasks did you have to do to get the management software to run on your machine? I get loads of missing lib files (so-files) when I start the srvdaemon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
Well, I downloaded the boot floppies from the most current snapshot which was dated May 18. Anyway, I booted my system up, and still no luck in the dmesg =(. I even started the 'Standard' installation to see if it would give me the choice to configure ar0; unfortunately, ad4, and ad6 were the only options. Now I'm going to quickly swap my card for the adaptec and see what happens. I still find it very odd that my card isn't working properly with the OS. Maybe the card is faulty? Eugene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eugene Hercun Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:34 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1 Thank you Ted, and Bjorn. I really appreciate your help. I will work on this tonight since I have a vector calculus midterm today. So what you're saying Ted is that there is something wrong with my card? For instance, it might be a different revision of some kind? No, I don't think there is anything wrong with your card. I think there is a problem with the RAID support in the ata driver in FreeBSD with your card. It could be a bug as a result of a different firmware revision, it could be a bug as a result of a mistake in the driver code. Or it could simply be that Soren didn't get around to putting in RAID support for that card, yet. I was actually thinking to swap my HighPoint card with an Adaptec 1200a which I'm using as an ide card on the other computer. If it works, I'll just leave the Adaptec in my FBSD and probably send off the HighPoint to Søren Schmidt. That would be the best I think. Ted I'll keep you posted. Thank you once again. =) Eugene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eugene Hercun Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:26 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1 Well, I downloaded the boot floppies from the most current snapshot which was dated May 18. Anyway, I booted my system up, and still no luck in the dmesg =(. I even started the 'Standard' installation to see if it would give me the choice to configure ar0; unfortunately, ad4, and ad6 were the only options. You absolutely must e-mail Soren on this right away. The driver developers rarely get a user with a problem who is clueful enough to give them usable feedback. Now I'm going to quickly swap my card for the adaptec and see what happens. Make sure to delete the array and data on disks completely, then recreate it with the BIOS on the 1200a card. I still find it very odd that my card isn't working properly with the OS. I don't. IDE raid support in FreeBSD is very, very young. Maybe the card is faulty? More likely the driver has a problem. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
Wohooo, it finally worked! I think I'm just going to leave the Adaptec card in there. Just by looking at the bios menu makes me feel more confident that it is a better product. The Highpoint bios was really mediocre in comparison. Anyway, I will e-mail Soren today regarding this issue. Thank you once again for your help. Eugene acd0: CDROM GCR-8523B/1.03 at ata1-slave PIO4 ad4: 190782MB WDC WD2000JB-00GVA0/08.02D08 [387621/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad6: 190782MB WDC WD2000JB-00GVA0/08.02D08 [387621/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 ar0: 190782MB ATA RAID1 array [24321/255/63] status: READY subdisks: disk0 READY on ad4 at ata2-master disk1 READY on ad6 at ata3-master Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ar0s1a ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
OK, I'm seriously stuck. I have searched every resource exhaustively, found bits and pieces, but not what I'm after. This is *honestly* my last resort. I have a HighPoint RocketRAID 454 with two Western Digital 200GB disks (I was hoping to boot FBSD off of these). I've setup a RAID 1 array under the bios utility program, and ran the FreeBSD 5.4 installer. I remember seeing two different disks (ad4, ad6) when it came to formatting/partitionning but I thought nothing of it. Until of course, I wanted to see if there was a way, other than rebooting, to check the RAID 1 status. I started reading through atacontrol(8) and found that I could use 'atacontrol status ar0' which gave me: atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDSTATUS): Device not configured I do not see anything in my dmesg relating to ar0 being up and running, and displaying the sub-disks which would explain why atacontrol would be giving me that error message. However, I do see that the RAID card, and the two disks, ad4, ad6, have been detected properly. I will attach my dmesg output below. Thank you in advance. Eugene $ dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC ACPI APIC Table: ASUS A7V8X-X Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ (1791.22-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE AMD Features=0xc040AMIE,DSP,3DNow! real memory = 536854528 (511 MB) avail memory = 515678208 (491 MB) ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2 ioapic0 Version 0.3 irqs 0-23 on motherboard npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: ASUS A7V8X-X on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0xe408-0xe40b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: VIA 8377 (Apollo KT400/KT400A/KT600) host to PCI bridge mem 0xf800-0xfbff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) pci1: display at device 0.1 (no driver attached) atapci0: HighPoint HPT374 (channel 0+1) UDMA133 controller port 0xa400-0xa4ff,0xa800-0xa803,0xb000-0xb007,0xb400-0xb403,0xb800-0xb807 irq 17 at device 14.0 on pci0 ata2: channel #0 on atapci0 ata3: channel #1 on atapci0 atapci1: HighPoint HPT374 (channel 2+3) UDMA133 controller port 0x8800-0x88ff,0x9000-0x9003,0x9400-0x9407,0x9800-0x9803,0xa000-0xa007 irq 17 at device 14.1 on pci0 ata4: channel #0 on atapci1 ata5: channel #1 on atapci1 uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0x8400-0x841f irq 21 at device 16.0 on pci0 usb0: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0x8000-0x801f irq 21 at device 16.1 on pci0 usb1: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0x7800-0x781f irq 21 at device 16.2 on pci0 usb2: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 16.3 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 17.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci2: VIA 8235 UDMA133 controller port 0x7400-0x740f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 17.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci2 ata1: channel #1 on atapci2 pci0: multimedia, audio at device 17.5 (no driver attached) vr0: VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX port 0x7000-0x70ff mem 0xdd80-0xdd8000ff irq 23 at device 18.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on vr0 rlphy0: RTL8201L 10/100 media interface on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto vr0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:6e:22:7b:e2 fdc0: floppy drive controller port 0x3f7,0x3f2-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: ECP parallel printer port port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
RE: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
Hi Eugene, OK, let me explain supported just a bit, here. ;-) There's 2 kinds of driver support we are talking about. The first is driver support where the driver can talk directly to the hard drives on the IDE controller. That's what you got. The second is the support where the driver can talk to the smarts in the RAID card that does the RAIDing, so that you can see your array as a single logical unit - which is what you need. After all an array ain't much good if your formatting and partitioning each hard drive in the array individually. Now, according to the man page for the ata driver in FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE, the supported Highpoint raid card models are: HighPoint: HPT302, HPT366, HPT366, HPT368, HPT370, HPT371, HPT372, HPT374. Your card is detected as: atapci0: HighPoint HPT374 (channel 0+1) UDMA133 controller So, what we have here is a bug. That is, the ata driver is supposed to know all about the RAID array on your card - but it don't - so something is wacked. If your card WAS completely supported you WOULD see an ar device in the dmesg output. Here's a sample from my system which has a Highpoint Rocket RAID 100 (actually, an OEMed card to Adaptec, listed under the Adaptec 1200A model): atapci0: HighPoint HPT370 UDMA100 controller ad4: 152627MB ST3160023A/8.01 [310101/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad6: 152627MB ST3160023A/3.01 [310101/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 ar0: 152627MB ATA RAID1 array [19457/255/63] status: READY subdisks: disk0 READY on ad4 at ata2-master disk1 READY on ad6 at ata3-master You don't got this so that is why FreeBSD can only see each disk, and not the array you created in the BIOS. Naturally, if you did have an ar device, you would ignore the ad devices and do all your formatting/partitioning/installing on the ar device. At this point, your next step needs to be to go to ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ and download the boot floppies for the most current snapshot of the FreeBSD 5.x release train, try to boot that and see if it recognizes your card's RAID - it might very well do this since there's been gobs of changes in the ATA raid code since the 5.4 release - development on this driver is extremely active right now, espically in the area of ata RAID. If it DOES support the array you got it made - either download the entire SNAP and run that, or use the current driver to try to find the bug in the 5.4 driver (most definitely NOT recommended) If it DOESEN'T support your card then e-mail Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] as he is working on this driver daily. You can either arrainge to loan him your card for a week or so, and hope that he gets the bug quashed quickly, or (and this is what I would do) just give him your card and ask him to fix it when he feels like it, then buy one that does not have the bug. Since your disks are only UDMA100 and you only have 2 of them, the Highpoint RocketRaid 100 card will give you the exact same speed and functionality. And, you can get them dirt cheap since people don't know that the Adaptec 1200A is just a relabeled RocketRaid 100. In fact I just picked up one of those cards off Ebay last week for under $20 - auction 5193591385 it was. And of course, one last thing you can do - try creating a mirror in the raid card BIOS instead of a stripe set, and see if that comes up as an ar device. Not that you will want to do this permanently, but it might help Soren find the bug more quickly if you find that mirroring works and striping doesen't. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eugene Hercun Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:11 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1 OK, I'm seriously stuck. I have searched every resource exhaustively, found bits and pieces, but not what I'm after. This is *honestly* my last resort. I have a HighPoint RocketRAID 454 with two Western Digital 200GB disks (I was hoping to boot FBSD off of these). I've setup a RAID 1 array under the bios utility program, and ran the FreeBSD 5.4 installer. I remember seeing two different disks (ad4, ad6) when it came to formatting/partitionning but I thought nothing of it. Until of course, I wanted to see if there was a way, other than rebooting, to check the RAID 1 status. I started reading through atacontrol(8) and found that I could use 'atacontrol status ar0' which gave me: atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDSTATUS): Device not configured I do not see anything in my dmesg relating to ar0 being up and running, and displaying the sub-disks which would explain why atacontrol would be giving me that error message. However, I do see that the RAID card, and the two disks, ad4, ad6, have been detected properly. I will attach my dmesg output below. Thank you in advance. Eugene $ dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988
Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
Hello, Use the binary driver from HighPoint http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20%2B%20Driver/rr454/FreeBSD/374-r5-bsd-v122.tgz Though the latest kernel module is intended for 5.3-RELEASE it should work with 5.4-RELEASE. I have the SATA counterpart of this controller and it does. It might be necessary to install the controller BIOS which comes with the tarball or you'll get a blank screen while booting FreeBSD. If you follow the instruction of the PDF file in this package then the RAID array should finally be recognized as da0 device. Regards Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
Thank you Ted, and Bjorn. I really appreciate your help. I will work on this tonight since I have a vector calculus midterm today. So what you're saying Ted is that there is something wrong with my card? For instance, it might be a different revision of some kind? I was actually thinking to swap my HighPoint card with an Adaptec 1200a which I'm using as an ide card on the other computer. If it works, I'll just leave the Adaptec in my FBSD and probably send off the HighPoint to Søren Schmidt. I'll keep you posted. Thank you once again. =) Eugene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HighPoint RocketRAID 454
Hi All, is anyone using the HighPoint RocketRAID 454 controller in RAID level 5 under FBSD 4.9 or 5.1 ? Thanks, Lutz Rabing ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
