Hi Chris, Maybe the Intel Q35 Chipset is not the (only) component which troubles your system, it could be for example the disks (which are not fully compatible with your motherboard). A best pratice is to consult the Hardware Compatibility List of your motherboard (if available) before assembling your machine.
If you have some spare hardware and time, you can try to swap your 2 hdds with another model/manufacturer. You can also try to add a cheap sata pci controller with your 2 'orginal' hdds. With these other tests, you will be able to isolate more the issue. Testing another OS is also a good opportunity to see if your hardware is really and fully working. If I remember well, you have already do that :) Did you try a 4.5 snapshot? Good luck... Alexis. Chris Harries a icrit : > Misc, > > > > For several weeks I was battering with Raid 1 and OpenBSD. I had some help > from a few people, specifically Alexis de BRUYN who frequents this list > often, but I never managed to get it working. Basically what happened was it > would seam to work all the way up to copying the data and parity using these > two commands; > > > > raidctl -vF component0 raid0 > raidctl -vP raid0 > > > > When I run the first command, I would get the "quiescence reached." but the > ETA bar wouldn't appear, the system would then hang and just stopped, not > panic or crash.just sit there. Being quite new to OpenBSD I was sure this > was me being stupid, typing a command wrong or something, I was following > this guide http://www.linux.com/articles/52713 so I wasn't sure if something > was wrong in the guide. Eventually, I had to give up and put it down to > hardware problems but never getting a full answer. Alexis de BRUYN was sure > what I was doing was correct, so yesterday I fired up VMware and tried it > again, it worked, the ETA bar came up, I even managed to run the raidctl -vP > raid0 command (something I never got to do before). > > > > So, it is a hardware problem; now the motherboard I am using is a Q35 > chipset board, quite new chipset really, it's the Gigabyte GA-Q35M-S2 which, > again, isn't a particularly old board. Being very anal, I believe any server > running should have RAID 1 for the OS unless it's doing nothing special at > all, so for RAID to not be working, especially on a board which isn't that > old, is a bit worrying for me. Ok, the board is a desktop board not a server > board (it suffices for this project) but I still think it should be working > with a popular chipset such as this. I want to help out the community if I > can and I wondered if I doing some testing was worth it. Someone could have > a simple answer of "it's not a highly used board so we don't bother" or > something along those lines, but I thought as I've spent some time > investigating this and I have a second Q35 board lying around I can test it > on again, if someone thinks I should carry out some tests of RAID and this > board/chipset, I will go ahead and report my findings. I can send any info > on the board if anyone wants it, to check the details over. > > > > Let me know what you think > > > > Chris > -- Alexis de BRUYN email : [email protected]
