Thanks for the tips. The Adaptec controller is based on Highpoint
yes..HP370 and while it does work in BSD it's not exactly a reliable
controller, I had it running in a RAID0 in different BSDs and it kept
giving me errors and failing with the hard disk perfectly well in
health...I just have it in my system to get up to 100, the default is 60
in this workstation and since I can't use more than two drives with the
onboard controller. I was simply looking for some speed and backup when
I originally bought it...but in the meantime I've realized that even
gmirror seems to be the better solution, sad, I always thought hardware
raid was more reliable..anyway, thanks...I'll test...
Domi
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:31:13 +0200
From: Christoph Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]>
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Good day.
There is an experimental ISO at 9grid.de[0], for testing, if VESA works
or not. It can be booted as LiveCD used for trying out Plan 9. The other
possibility is to use Drawterm[1] for connecting to 9grid and so try out
Plan 9 as user. Booting Plan 9 from the FreeBSD bootloader should work,
as there is a standard bootloader in the 9fat partition, in the Plan 9
installation, the ATA HDD should be supported by now and can be seen on
the CD boot, by the "dev A* ..." lines after "ELCR: ...". Each of them
is a IDE device, that was found.
Sincerely,
Christoph
[0] http://www.9grid.de/plan9/plan9vesa.iso.bz2
[1] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/ (drawterm-*.gz)
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:59:40 +0200
From: "Anselm R. Garbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On 8/12/05, Unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
this PC..I don't have a spare PC left, the hard disk btw, is running off
an Adaptec 1200 H/W raid controller IDE...Is there any way to get this
I own(ed) that frking crappy controller as well, it's based on some
Highpoint 366/370 chipset, but is not detected by plan9 (including the
experimental vesa and daily ISOs of 9grid.de). When 4th Ed of plan9
was released, even Linux didn't knew that frking controller by default
- only the BSDs worked out of the box by that time.
In the meantime I throwed this controller out of the window (which you
cannot even use for RAID0 in a "hardware" setup, it is actually
incomparable with a real SCSI RAID controller) and switched back to
the onboard ide driver which is recognized by plan9 and all other
OS'es so far.
I highly recommend NOT to use any IDE-hardware-"RAID" at all...
there're better software based solutions...
Regards,
