Re[2]: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation

2006-06-20 Thread georg
, full size (whatever 2TB value you were talking about). 2. RAID-6, 2TB. From there, I'll figure out what needs to be done to get it fully working for you. I have Adaptec 2820SA on my FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE. But it work in RAID-10 mode. I was build RAID-5, RAID-6, but FreeBSD (5.3, 5.4, 6.0, 6.1

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-20 Thread Eric Anderson
Scott Long wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: Ensel Sharon wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Ok, aac is in the dmesg. I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - there are just no drives listed in dmesg. My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array,

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 18, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Ensel Sharon wrote: Let's say I have 8 disks. Let's say I require raid6. You require RAID-6 because...? If you want more fault tolerance or better performance, RAID-10 makes a lot more sense to me than RAID-6, but YMMV. If I make one array, I lose 25% to

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-19 Thread Scott Long
Eric Anderson wrote: Ensel Sharon wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Ok, aac is in the dmesg. I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - there are just no drives listed in dmesg. My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation

2006-06-19 Thread Scott Long
Ensel Sharon wrote: I did all my due diligence, I contacted freebsd-fs and _made sure_ that even though the 2820sa is not listed by name in the HCL, that I could take a 6.1-RELEASE cd and install freebsd on a 2820sa. I was _assured_ that these cards are supported in 6.1-RELEASE, that all is

Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation

2006-06-18 Thread Ensel Sharon
I did all my due diligence, I contacted freebsd-fs and _made sure_ that even though the 2820sa is not listed by name in the HCL, that I could take a 6.1-RELEASE cd and install freebsd on a 2820sa. I was _assured_ that these cards are supported in 6.1-RELEASE, that all is well, and I could

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation

2006-06-18 Thread Jahilliya
On 6/19/06, Ensel Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did all my due diligence, I contacted freebsd-fs and _made sure_ that even though the 2820sa is not listed by name in the HCL, that I could take a 6.1-RELEASE cd and install freebsd on a 2820sa. I was _assured_ that these cards are supported

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation

2006-06-18 Thread John Kozubik
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Try hitting scroll lock and then page up to view the dmesg or go to the emergency console and run dmesg to see if it picked up any aac devices. You may need to load the module yourself, you should be able to do this from the emergency console (not sure

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation

2006-06-18 Thread Ensel Sharon
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Try hitting scroll lock and then page up to view the dmesg or go to the emergency console and run dmesg to see if it picked up any aac devices. You may need to load the module yourself, you should be able to do this from the emergency console (not sure

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation

2006-06-18 Thread Jahilliya
On 6/19/06, John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Try hitting scroll lock and then page up to view the dmesg or go to the emergency console and run dmesg to see if it picked up any aac devices. You may need to load the module yourself, you should be

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation

2006-06-18 Thread Jahilliya
Ok, aac is in the dmesg. I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - there are just no drives listed in dmesg. My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any problems with that ? Perhaps sysinstall cannot deal with a 2TB drive ? There are no

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-18 Thread Ensel Sharon
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Ok, aac is in the dmesg. I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - there are just no drives listed in dmesg. My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any problems with that ? Perhaps

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-18 Thread Eric Anderson
Ensel Sharon wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Ok, aac is in the dmesg. I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - there are just no drives listed in dmesg. My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any problems with that ?

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-18 Thread Ensel Sharon
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: 6.1 sysinstall does in fact see both 2820sa controllers, and when I put in a single 160GB sata drive, it does see that single drive and I can install onto it, etc. Sysinstall does _not_ see my 2.7TB raid6 array. I suspect that if it were

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-18 Thread Eric Anderson
Ensel Sharon wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: 6.1 sysinstall does in fact see both 2820sa controllers, and when I put in a single 160GB sata drive, it does see that single drive and I can install onto it, etc. Sysinstall does _not_ see my 2.7TB raid6 array. I suspect that if

Adaptec 2820SA

2006-03-20 Thread georg
Helo! Did some one work with Adaptec 2820SA in FreeBSD? In Adaptec web page I see that 2820SA is support in FreeBSD 5.35.4 Now I try install 5.4, but system answer no disk drives... I was install it on FreeBSD 6 it work, but I try it on RAID 10, when rebuild to RAID 5EE or RAID 5 system write