Matthew Hagerty wrote:
Greetings,
I have a Promise TX2300 (latest BIOS 2.5.0.3122) that I'm trying to
use with 6.2R. I set up a two disk mirror using the card's BIOS
utility, but when I go to install FBSD my disk selection is only ad4
and ad6, the array is not being recognized (I believe I should have an
ar0 in the list as well).
I can install on a single disk just fine, I just can't get FBSD to see
the array. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matthew
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Lukas Razik wrote:
Hello Matthew!
You can read my experience with the TX4310 controller (same as TX2300
but with 4 ports and RAID5 support - TX4300 doesn't have RAID5):
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003505.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003506.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003507.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003508.html
I hope you will get it work with the 'atacontrol' command:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrol&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html
The problem for me with atacontrol was that after booting Windows my
/dev/arX device always has been destroyed.
My solution was:
Buying a 3ware 8006-2LP 2-port SATA HARDWARE RAID Controller which has
better performance than the TX4310 although it's SATA and not SATA-II
and also very good Linux support.
Regards and Good Luck!
Lukas
Lukas,
Thanks for the info, I'll give atacontrol a try. I never used it, and
really didn't know such a utility existed. Does it actually write
something to the disks that lets the array be recognized by FreeBSD?
I'm assuming I would:
1. Set the array in the TX2300 BIOS.
2. Boot with live file system disk and use atacontrol to make the array.
3. Reboot with install disk and install on ar0.
Is think correct or am I missing part of the picture. Also, once the
array is built, can I still use dedicated partitions, or do I have to
use compatible partitions? I can only assume that atacontrol has to
write something to the disks themselves?
Thanks,
Matthew
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