Hi Ted, Thanks for the information regarding the Ethernet chipset, does the same thing happen if you configure the interface via rc.conf/ifconfig once the system is up and running?
If the ethernet chipset support at the moment is flakey then I might have to look at a different vender, ethernet being one of the most important devices I need working for what I'm after! :( Cheers, Will On 29/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi William, No. Soren added a bunch of error checking code in the ata driver for 6.1 to reject oddball cases and one of the things it does is ignore the disks on this particular server if the RAID functionality is turned on in the BIOS. However, even though FreeBSD 6.0 sees the disks if the RAID setup is switched on in BIOS, it does not see the RAID array so it is pretty much an error to have this BIOS option turned on. Until support for the Adaptec metadata format is added, the RAID firmware in this server is useless. But you still can get RAID going on the server now by doing this: Turn off SATA Raid in the BIOS. Install a scratch version of FreeBSD. Login as root issue the command "atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6" Immediately reboot. Reinstall FreeBSD on disk "ar0" This will give you chipset RAID just you can't rebuild the array from the BIOS. More importantly, though, is trouble with the Ethernet chipset. During the install it will ask if you want to configure the Ethernet interface. Do not do this. If you do the system will immediately panic. Once the system is up and running, recompile the kernel to use the fix discussed in PR kern/94307. A discussion of how you might go about implementing this fix is in PR kern/94863 Unfortunately the bge maintainers) are very loath to believe that they are going to have to make exceptions in their code for all the different hacked up variants of this Ethernet chipset, but in reviewing the PR database I suspect this is the case. Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William >Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 4:27 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 > > >Ted, > >Is that the same with FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE? > >Cheers, > >Will > >On 28/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> No, but you must make sure to turn OFF raid in the BIOS >> settings or FreeBSD 6.1 will not recognize the drives. >> >> Ted >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William >> >Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:05 AM >> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 >> > >> > >> >Will this stop me using the drives without RAID? >> > >> >Regards, >> > >> >William >> > >> >On 28/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> RAID support on the DL320 G4 is broken. HP uses Adaptec >> >> firmware and Adaptec has not provided Soren programming info >> >> on their metadata format, as he requested. >> >> >> >> Ted >> >> >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of >> >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net >> >> >Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM >> >> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> Our vendor preference is HP, if anyone could share >their experience >> >> >> with the following products (in regards of network/sata >support and >> >> >> anything else mentioning): >> >> >> >> >> >> HP DL140 G2 >> >> >> HP DL145 G2 >> >> >> HP DL320 G4 >> >> >> HP DL360 G4 >> >> > >> >> >we tried dl320 g2, g3, g4, dl380 g3 with sata/ciss drives, >> >> >1-4gb ram, P4/XEON, DUAL-XEON with freebsd 5 and 6. >> >> >as of the *bsd's, freebsd has the best support for the >> >> >hp DL*s. sata support is not given for all embedded raid- >> >> >controllers but you can still use raid 1 functionality >> >> >using raidctl. hdd failures can render the system hang for >> >> >3-5sec's on sata devices but after this timeout, everything's >> >> >fine. rebuild is sometimes only possible by os-command, pluggin' >> >> >in the new drive is sometimes not enough ;-) >> >> > >> >> >nw/chipset support is working (at least on all machines we use). >> >> >no performance issues, except you configure as router and you use >> >> >many different irq's for all interfaces (only occurred on >a machine >> >> >with 8 interfaces). >> >> > >> >> >thermal zone / ipmi support is not really >> >> >close to the vendors ideas and sometimes produces wrong >> >> >numbers, but if you don't want to set fan-speed or check >> >> >temp. on all mentioned devices, it's fine. >> >> > >> >> >also, system management like (red-power fail, red-fan >fail, etc...) >> >> >is not really talking to the os and vice versa, therefore you'll >> >> >have to check for errors like this on your own. >> >> > >> >> >furthermore, bios/fw upgrades can sometimes be really annoying, >> >> >if you don't have usb-boot-support you'd run into troubles because >> >> >hp only delivers them for some specific os's and freebsd is not on >> >> >the list. >> >> > >> >> >btw. if somebody reads this and thinks: hey, bullshit i know a way >> >> >of doing this better and it works fine with my DL, please let me >> >> >know! >> >> > >> >> >best regards and good luck w. the hw :-) >> >> > >> >> >_______________________________________________ >> >> >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> >> >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> >> >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> >> >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >> > >> >> >-- >> >> >No virus found in this incoming message. >> >> >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> >> >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.0/325 - Release >> >Date: 4/26/2006 >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >> >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> > >> >-- >> >No virus found in this incoming message. >> >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/326 - Release >Date: 4/27/2006 >> > >> >> >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/327 - Release Date: 4/28/2006 >
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