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 specific

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 looks

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 ATA

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

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 Linux.

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

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