I also bought a highpoint (17xx something) card for my previous home/smb-server and i could never get it booting either regardless of "freebsd support". It was based on a VIA EPIA motherboard.
Ended up going with softraid (gmirror).. it worked well enough but be warned that after an extended uptime that a gmirror sync + fsck will cause a seek storm that will take ages to finish. Using ZFS for my current setup with duplication. 2011/1/16 Cameron Tune <[email protected]>: > Last month I purchased a Highpoint 2320 raid card, > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115026 , for my > FreeBSD server. I'm new to the FreeBSD world - so please bear with me as I > try to solve the following issue. > > With the card installed - the server hangs during the boot process. I don't > even get to the standard FreeBSD boot menus (loader prompt, single-user mode, > etc.), rather the freeze occurs after a "console" message and then a listing > of physical disks. A picture of where the hang occurs is at > http://www.camerontune.com/images/photo.jpg . > > As far as I can tell this card is supported on FreeBSD (running 8.1 STABLE > i386). I've updated the motherboard bios, and have also monkeyed around with > just about every possible setting in the card's bios. Motherboard is a > Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P. > > I've combed through every possible log I can find in /var/logs - but I'm not > finding anything that starts this early in the boot process. I've also > ensured that all drivers are present and loaded in loader.conf - however I > don't think I'm even getting to the point of drivers being loaded. > > Any thoughts are appreciated - and please let me know if there's any > additional information I can provide that may help diagnose the > problem._______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
