Re: Motherboard support
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome I'm not sure about the NIC, but I don't think the native ide or sata control matters in terms of zfs (I could be wrong, and please correct me if so experts). The sata controller should recognize the disks with or without raid, which freebsd should recognize then install on. I use sata in this mode on my systems, and freebsd works fine. Any software raid wouldn't care then as long as freebsd itself recognizes the drives. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Motherboard support
Well I spent a little more time having a look in the bios Here are the results from various settings and a potential solution. SATA controller in Native IDE mode All drives show as IDE at the POST summary screen on boot In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-3 The disks show SATA Ports 45 No disks show Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113 at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata5-master SATA300 SATA Controller in AHCI Mode All drives show up on RAID Controller POST summary screen In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-5 now show disks connected Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113 at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata6-master SATA300 ad14: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata7-master SATA300 I have read there have been problems with the realtek 8169/8111c NIC card on some systems with under FreeBSD, but I cant seem to find a solution to this. Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: Da Rock [mailto:rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au] Sent: 21 January 2009 10:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard support On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome I'm not sure about the NIC, but I don't think the native ide or sata control matters in terms of zfs (I could be wrong, and please correct me if so experts). The sata controller should recognize the disks with or without raid, which freebsd should recognize then install on. I use sata in this mode on my systems, and freebsd works fine. Any software raid wouldn't care then as long as freebsd itself recognizes the drives. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Motherboard support
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 13:37 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Well I spent a little more time having a look in the bios Here are the results from various settings and a potential solution. SATA controller in Native IDE mode All drives show as IDE at the POST summary screen on boot In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-3 The disks show SATA Ports 45 No disks show Only the first four are recognized as ide, the controller is translating them as a second and third ide channel but in doing so will ignore the rest, making any other sata channels pretty much useless. I'm probably only stating the obvious here, but I think pretty much any platform will respond like FreeBSD with this scenario. Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113 at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata5-master SATA300 SATA Controller in AHCI Mode All drives show up on RAID Controller POST summary screen In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-5 now show disks connected Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113 at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata6-master SATA300 ad14: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata7-master SATA300 Some MB's have several different modes of sata for different scenarios, mine has an auto, combined, ide, sata mode. But then it also has 2 controllers - this mode changes only 4 of the sata ports. Using the sata mode in your case will give you access to all of the drives (with no raid mode defined on the controller) and then you can define the raid in software on FreeBSD with no muss, no fuss. Depends on what you like I guess. I have read there have been problems with the realtek 8169/8111c NIC card on some systems with under FreeBSD, but I cant seem to find a solution to this. I'm not sure of the differences between the c and e types of rtl8111, but the e has third party drivers which can be built on 6.x. As to whether there are third party drivers for c I'm not sure. Look for whatever version FreeBSD you have (They may have 7.x drivers now, not when I last looked about a year ago) and that may get you out of trouble in the short term- or stick another known NIC in. Then you can keep track of whatever is going on in regards to the native drivers for your card. HTH and good luck! Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: Da Rock [mailto:rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au] Sent: 21 January 2009 10:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard support On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome I'm not sure about the NIC, but I don't think the native ide or sata control matters in terms of zfs (I could be wrong, and please correct me if so experts). The sata controller should recognize the disks with or without raid, which freebsd should recognize then install on. I use sata in this mode on my systems, and freebsd works fine. Any software raid wouldn't care then as long as freebsd itself recognizes the drives. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Motherboard support
Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome Regards Graeme ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CURRENT: RAID1: use vinum(8) or motherboard support (VIA VT8237)?
Hi Burkard Meyendriesch, you wrote. BM Hi all, BM for my new -CURRENT box I have to decide wether to use BM vinum(8) or the on-board capabilities of my Asus K8V Deluxe BM motherboard for RAID1 mirroring. Which solution would you BM recommend? Personally, I've always found vinum to be a rather weird piece of software to work with, so I'd suggest you go for onboard RAID, but I0m not sure if VT8237 RAID1 is supported right now (however, atacontrol can also do RAID without any direct support for the chipset). If anything, I'd also look into raid(4). Regards, Gabriel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CURRENT: RAID1: use vinum(8) or motherboard support (VIA VT8237)?
Hi all, for my new -CURRENT box I have to decide wether to use vinum(8) or the on-board capabilities of my Asus K8V Deluxe motherboard for RAID1 mirroring. Which solution would you recommend? Thanks for your advice Burkard -- Burkard Meyendriesch Stevern 2 D-48301 Nottuln pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
AMD motherboard support
I'm looking at 2 AMD motherboards and wondering if there are any known problems with FreeBSD: MSI6378XL and FIAK75. Any feedback appreciated. Steve Sapovits GSI Commerce, Inc. http://www.gsicommerce.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
