Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-11 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Pete wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > > No, thats not the case, the ATA driver has a built in RAID engine > > to use with Promise and HighPoint controllers. The reason it is > > like this is that it is nessesary to read the RAID config off the > > disks in a vendor s

Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-10 Thread Pete
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Søren Schmidt wrote: > No, thats not the case, the ATA driver has a built in RAID engine > to use with Promise and HighPoint controllers. The reason it is > like this is that it is nessesary to read the RAID config off the > disks in a vendor specific way, and neither of cdd/v

Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-10 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> atacontrol create mirror ad6 ad7 > > This is starting to _really_ confuse me. Does FreeBSD have two software > > RAID systems? > > Yes (vinum and raidframe) And ccd :) > >Is there something built into the

Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> atacontrol create mirror ad6 ad7 > This is starting to _really_ confuse me. Does FreeBSD have two software > RAID systems? Yes (vinum and raidframe) >Is there something built into the ATA controller drivers > that can do software RAID too? It l

Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-09 Thread Pete
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > To make it short, the disklabel problem is probably due to the disk > containing what disklabel see as a bogus label, try to zero out the > label by using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adN count=100. This is what I initially thought, but when I swapped the

Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-09 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Pete wrote: > Hello, > > I've been posting about this since the beginning on the year. A few > times on freebsd-questions, once on freebsd-hackers, and submitted a PR > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48165). I have never found > a solution beyond replacing FreeBSD with Linu

3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-08 Thread Pete
Hello, I've been posting about this since the beginning on the year. A few times on freebsd-questions, once on freebsd-hackers, and submitted a PR (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48165). I have never found a solution beyond replacing FreeBSD with Linux. (Which is not something I'd l