On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 13:00 +0200, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Yousef Raffah wrote: > > > The machine is a compaq server with Smart RAID controller > > Is the controller recognised by FreeBSD during startup? > Yes
> If it's a SmartArray 5xxx then the 'ciss' driver is the one you want: > > ciss0: <Compaq Smart Array 5300> port ... > [...] > da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <COMPAQ RAID 5 VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > da0: 135.168MB/s transfers > da0: 105008MB (215056800 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 26355C) > I have exactly the same output :) > This is a real hardware RAID card, and it presents the array to the > system as a regular SCSI disk (da0 above). Just define your array from > the card's BIOS and make sure you are running a kernel that has 'ciss' > enabled (GENERIC has it by default). > Why should I define it from the card's BIOS? Is it done through the system's startup (F9)? How can I have my volumes configured? Is it after the system is being installed or during installation? Please forgive my newbie questions :| > /Daniel Eriksson Thanks > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com
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