At 07:53 PM 7/30/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply!
I created the array in the Adaptec BIOS and confirmed it with an XP
installer disk, which gave me the option to install to the array as I had
named it.
I have to apologise for not having the actual dmesg handy but identifies
the disks much like the example below, but with Seagate disks.
It does not identify any striping or make any differentiation between the
discs other than the target id.
.
da0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
da0: <MAXTOR ATLAS10K4_36WLS DFV0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0:
320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 35074MB (71833096 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4471C)
da1 at ahd0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
da1: <MAXTOR ATLAS10K4_36WLS DFV0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1:
320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da1: 35074MB (71833096 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4471C)
Regards
Are you seeing any aacd drives in the dmesg? This would be the device name
for an advanced adaptec raid drive.
-Derek
Derek Ragona wrote:
At 07:14 PM 7/30/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Derek,
As mentioned in my post, I have configured the Adaptec BIOS
(SCSIselect/HostRAID) to create a RAID0 array.
The GENERIC Kernel natively-uses the 'ahd' adapter for this card,
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ahd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ahd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE
dmesg does not post any errors, it recognised the card as ahd0, and
states that da0 & da1 are on that bus. I can not post the dmesg as the
NIC adapter needs to be patched once the OS is installed. I could find a
USB key and copy it over if you like, but there are no errors to consider.
Regards
What does dmesg show for da0 and da1?
Did you actually create the array in the Adaptec RAID BIOS? If you did,
with a stripped array I'd expect dmesg to only report da0 as the stripped
compendium of both disks.
-Derek
Derek Ragona wrote:
At 07:56 AM 7/30/2008,
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I am fighting the following hardware:
MB: ASUS p5b-plus (NON vista edition)
Cpu: Core 2 duo 4600
SCSI Card: Adaptec 39320 (Unused Dell OEM bought from ebay)
HDDs: 2xSeagate Cheetah 73.4 GB Ultra320 SCSI (posibly Dell OEM)
Nb. The MB does not support PCI-X, but is backwards compatible to a
standard PCI slot. On recommendations I have limited the throughput on
the channels to 160mb.
If you think any other pieces relevant let me know.
I think this is probably just an issue with my not knowing wtf I'm
doing, but to be optimistic lets assume the ahd module worked as there
are no errors in dmesg; which device do I install to? I can not see
see ahd0 in fdisk.
There are alot of posts over the years reporting trouble with the
Dell(Adaptec/Seagate) combiniation. The funny thing is that I am
having none of these troubles; There are no panics, no dumps and no
lengthy pauses. It all seems fine, until I try to select the disk to
install to and I only have da0 or da1.
Thanks for your time
Have you defined an array?
If you create the array in the adaptec BIOS you will see one large hard
disk in FreeBSD. If you do not define an array in the adaptec BIOS you
will see the individual SCSI drives as da0, da1, etc.
The GENERIC kernel has all the typical SCSI and RAID adapters compiled
in, so look at the dmesg output when you boot FreeBSD.
-Derek
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