RE: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olga Zenkova Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 3:42 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2 Regarding multiple posts on the current ata driver in 5.4 not supporting hardware mirroring with the Intel ICH5R and ICH6R chips ... My 2 cents is to use gmirror for software mirroring as is described in http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ There is another method, which I have also used, that has the advantage of not needing to go into Fixit mode using the 5.4 boot CD (hence it can be executed remotely); however, it takes more typing and more reboots. It is described here: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ If you use the latter, note that Ralf uses ATA drives ad0 and ad1, while your SATA configuration will probably come up as ad4 and ad6. You need to make the transliteration 0 -- 4 and 1 -- 6 very carefully, especially in the line for the boot loader where ad(1,a) -- ad(6,a). This latter paper also outlines how to mirror at the slice, rather than the disk, level. One final hint: if you are playing around with gmirror on the same disks, you can get into a situation where one attempt has left gmirror information on the last sector of your disks. This will confuse gmirror, and you will have to load and use gmirror to clear it out. Read the man pages on gmirror in any case!!! Best of luck, -gayn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2
Thanks, Gayn! I am thinking what to do. Olga Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2
Olga, I'm afraid you are ALMOST out of luck. The 7520 chipset contains the ICH5R controller. To support RAID1, the ata driver needs the mk3 patches, which are not in 5.4-RELEASE. You can, as you suggest, implement RAID1 in software. There are several postings on this topic. You could also add a RAID controller card. There are many postings on this as well, but if you want an all-Intel configuration, Intel's website lists two compatible Intel RAID boards. -gayn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olga Zenkova Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 8:25 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2 Hi! I have Intel server board SE7520bd2 with integrated SATA RAID controller on it and two hard drives that are already configured as RAID 1 (mirror) via BIOS. When I trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 it doesn't see my RAID 1, but sees two individual disks. What can I do? Does it mean that FreeBSD 5.4 does not have the needed driver and all I can do is to configure software RAID? Thanks, Olga __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2
What and where are the mk3 patches? Mystery Keyboard version 3? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gayn Winters Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:02 AM To: 'Olga Zenkova'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2 Olga, I'm afraid you are ALMOST out of luck. The 7520 chipset contains the ICH5R controller. To support RAID1, the ata driver needs the mk3 patches, which are not in 5.4-RELEASE. You can, as you suggest, implement RAID1 in software. There are several postings on this topic. You could also add a RAID controller card. There are many postings on this as well, but if you want an all-Intel configuration, Intel's website lists two compatible Intel RAID boards. -gayn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olga Zenkova Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 8:25 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2 Hi! I have Intel server board SE7520bd2 with integrated SATA RAID controller on it and two hard drives that are already configured as RAID 1 (mirror) via BIOS. When I trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 it doesn't see my RAID 1, but sees two individual disks. What can I do? Does it mean that FreeBSD 5.4 does not have the needed driver and all I can do is to configure software RAID? Thanks, Olga __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-jan-2005-mar-2005.html#Status- Report-for-FreeBSD-ATA-driver-project (Latest official status on mk3) -Original Message- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 3:00 PM To: Gayn Winters; 'Olga Zenkova'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2 What and where are the mk3 patches? Mystery Keyboard version 3? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gayn Winters Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:02 AM To: 'Olga Zenkova'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2 Olga, I'm afraid you are ALMOST out of luck. The 7520 chipset contains the ICH5R controller. To support RAID1, the ata driver needs the mk3 patches, which are not in 5.4-RELEASE. You can, as you suggest, implement RAID1 in software. There are several postings on this topic. You could also add a RAID controller card. There are many postings on this as well, but if you want an all-Intel configuration, Intel's website lists two compatible Intel RAID boards. -gayn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olga Zenkova Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 8:25 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2 Hi! I have Intel server board SE7520bd2 with integrated SATA RAID controller on it and two hard drives that are already configured as RAID 1 (mirror) via BIOS. When I trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 it doesn't see my RAID 1, but sees two individual disks. What can I do? Does it mean that FreeBSD 5.4 does not have the needed driver and all I can do is to configure software RAID? Thanks, Olga __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
