Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
Wohooo, it finally worked! I think I'm just going to leave the Adaptec card in there. Just by looking at the bios menu makes me feel more confident that it is a better product. The Highpoint bios was really mediocre in comparison. Anyway, I will e-mail Soren today regarding this issue. Thank you once again for your help. Eugene acd0: CDROM at ata1-slave PIO4 ad4: 190782MB [387621/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad6: 190782MB [387621/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 ar0: 190782MB [24321/255/63] status: READY subdisks: disk0 READY on ad4 at ata2-master disk1 READY on ad6 at ata3-master Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ar0s1a > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eugene Hercun > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:26 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1 > > > Well, I downloaded the boot floppies from the most current snapshot > which was dated May 18. Anyway, I booted my system up, and still no > luck in the dmesg =(. I even started the 'Standard' installation to > see if it would give me the choice to configure ar0; unfortunately, > ad4, and ad6 were the only options. > You absolutely must e-mail Soren on this right away. The driver developers rarely get a user with a problem who is clueful enough to give them usable feedback. > Now I'm going to quickly swap my card for the adaptec and see > what happens. > Make sure to delete the array and data on disks completely, then recreate it with the BIOS on the 1200a card. > I still find it very odd that my card isn't working properly with the > OS. I don't. IDE raid support in FreeBSD is very, very young. > Maybe the card is faulty? > More likely the driver has a problem. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eugene Hercun > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:34 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1 > > > Thank you Ted, and Bjorn. I really appreciate your help. I will work > on this tonight since I have a vector calculus midterm today. > > So what you're saying Ted is that there is something wrong with my > card? For instance, it might be a different revision of some kind? > No, I don't think there is anything wrong with your card. I think there is a problem with the RAID support in the ata driver in FreeBSD with your card. It could be a bug as a result of a different firmware revision, it could be a bug as a result of a mistake in the driver code. Or it could simply be that Soren didn't get around to putting in RAID support for that card, yet. > I was actually thinking to swap my HighPoint card with an Adaptec > 1200a which I'm using as an ide card on the other computer. If it > works, I'll just leave the Adaptec in my FBSD and probably send off > the HighPoint to Søren Schmidt. That would be the best I think. Ted > I'll keep you posted. > Thank you once again. =) > > Eugene > ___ > 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: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
Well, I downloaded the boot floppies from the most current snapshot which was dated May 18. Anyway, I booted my system up, and still no luck in the dmesg =(. I even started the 'Standard' installation to see if it would give me the choice to configure ar0; unfortunately, ad4, and ad6 were the only options. Now I'm going to quickly swap my card for the adaptec and see what happens. I still find it very odd that my card isn't working properly with the OS. Maybe the card is faulty? Eugene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
Thank you Ted, and Bjorn. I really appreciate your help. I will work on this tonight since I have a vector calculus midterm today. So what you're saying Ted is that there is something wrong with my card? For instance, it might be a different revision of some kind? I was actually thinking to swap my HighPoint card with an Adaptec 1200a which I'm using as an ide card on the other computer. If it works, I'll just leave the Adaptec in my FBSD and probably send off the HighPoint to Søren Schmidt. I'll keep you posted. Thank you once again. =) Eugene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
Hello, Use the binary driver from HighPoint http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20%2B%20Driver/rr454/FreeBSD/374-r5-bsd-v122.tgz Though the latest kernel module is intended for 5.3-RELEASE it should work with 5.4-RELEASE. I have the SATA counterpart of this controller and it does. It might be necessary to install the controller BIOS which comes with the tarball or you'll get a blank screen while booting FreeBSD. If you follow the instruction of the PDF file in this package then the RAID array should finally be recognized as da0 device. Regards Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
Hi Eugene, OK, let me explain "supported" just a bit, here. ;-) There's 2 kinds of driver support we are talking about. The first is driver support where the driver can talk directly to the hard drives on the IDE controller. That's what you got. The second is the support where the driver can talk to the smarts in the RAID card that does the RAIDing, so that you can see your array as a single logical unit - which is what you need. After all an array ain't much good if your formatting and partitioning each hard drive in the array individually. Now, according to the man page for the ata driver in FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE, the supported Highpoint raid card models are: HighPoint: HPT302, HPT366, HPT366, HPT368, HPT370, HPT371, HPT372, HPT374. Your card is detected as: atapci0: So, what we have here is a bug. That is, the ata driver is supposed to know all about the RAID array on your card - but it don't - so something is wacked. If your card WAS completely supported you WOULD see an ar device in the dmesg output. Here's a sample from my system which has a Highpoint Rocket RAID 100 (actually, an OEMed card to Adaptec, listed under the Adaptec 1200A model): atapci0: ad4: 152627MB [310101/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad6: 152627MB [310101/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 ar0: 152627MB [19457/255/63] status: READY subdisks: disk0 READY on ad4 at ata2-master disk1 READY on ad6 at ata3-master You don't got this so that is why FreeBSD can only see each disk, and not the array you created in the BIOS. Naturally, if you did have an ar device, you would ignore the ad devices and do all your formatting/partitioning/installing on the ar device. At this point, your next step needs to be to go to ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ and download the boot floppies for the most current snapshot of the FreeBSD 5.x release train, try to boot that and see if it recognizes your card's RAID - it might very well do this since there's been gobs of changes in the ATA raid code since the 5.4 release - development on this driver is extremely active right now, espically in the area of ata RAID. If it DOES support the array you got it made - either download the entire SNAP and run that, or use the current driver to try to find the bug in the 5.4 driver (most definitely NOT recommended) If it DOESEN'T support your card then e-mail Søren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as he is working on this driver daily. You can either arrainge to loan him your card for a week or so, and hope that he gets the bug quashed quickly, or (and this is what I would do) just give him your card and ask him to fix it when he feels like it, then buy one that does not have the bug. Since your disks are only UDMA100 and you only have 2 of them, the Highpoint RocketRaid 100 card will give you the exact same speed and functionality. And, you can get them dirt cheap since people don't know that the Adaptec 1200A is just a relabeled RocketRaid 100. In fact I just picked up one of those cards off Ebay last week for under $20 - auction 5193591385 it was. And of course, one last thing you can do - try creating a mirror in the raid card BIOS instead of a stripe set, and see if that comes up as an ar device. Not that you will want to do this permanently, but it might help Soren find the bug more quickly if you find that mirroring works and striping doesen't. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eugene Hercun > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:11 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1 > > > OK, I'm seriously stuck. I have searched every resource exhaustively, > found bits and pieces, but not what I'm after. This is *honestly* my > last resort. > I have a HighPoint RocketRAID 454 with two Western Digital 200GB disks > (I was hoping to boot FBSD off of these). I've setup a RAID 1 array > under the bios utility program, and ran the FreeBSD 5.4 installer. I > remember seeing two different disks (ad4, ad6) when it came to > formatting/partitionning but I thought nothing of it. Until of course, > I wanted to see if there was a way, other than rebooting, to check the > RAID 1 status. I started reading through atacontrol(8) and found that > I could use 'atacontrol status ar0' which gave me: > atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDSTATUS): Device not configured > > I do not see anything in my dmesg relating to ar0 being up and > running, and displaying the sub-disks which would explain why > atacontrol would be giving me that error message. However, I do see > that the RAID card, and the two disks, ad4, ad6, have been detected > properly. > > I will attach my dmesg output below. > Thank you in advance. > > Eugene &
highpoint rocketraid 454 - RAID 1
OK, I'm seriously stuck. I have searched every resource exhaustively, found bits and pieces, but not what I'm after. This is *honestly* my last resort. I have a HighPoint RocketRAID 454 with two Western Digital 200GB disks (I was hoping to boot FBSD off of these). I've setup a RAID 1 array under the bios utility program, and ran the FreeBSD 5.4 installer. I remember seeing two different disks (ad4, ad6) when it came to formatting/partitionning but I thought nothing of it. Until of course, I wanted to see if there was a way, other than rebooting, to check the RAID 1 status. I started reading through atacontrol(8) and found that I could use 'atacontrol status ar0' which gave me: atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDSTATUS): Device not configured I do not see anything in my dmesg relating to ar0 being up and running, and displaying the sub-disks which would explain why atacontrol would be giving me that error message. However, I do see that the RAID card, and the two disks, ad4, ad6, have been detected properly. I will attach my dmesg output below. Thank you in advance. Eugene $ dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC ACPI APIC Table: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ (1791.22-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1 Features=0x383fbff AMD Features=0xc040 real memory = 536854528 (511 MB) avail memory = 515678208 (491 MB) ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2 ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xe408-0xe40b on acpi0 cpu0: on acpi0 acpi_button0: on acpi0 pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0xf800-0xfbff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) pci1: at device 0.1 (no driver attached) atapci0: port 0xa400-0xa4ff,0xa800-0xa803,0xb000-0xb007,0xb400-0xb403,0xb800-0xb807 irq 17 at device 14.0 on pci0 ata2: channel #0 on atapci0 ata3: channel #1 on atapci0 atapci1: port 0x8800-0x88ff,0x9000-0x9003,0x9400-0x9407,0x9800-0x9803,0xa000-0xa007 irq 17 at device 14.1 on pci0 ata4: channel #0 on atapci1 ata5: channel #1 on atapci1 uhci0: port 0x8400-0x841f irq 21 at device 16.0 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: port 0x8000-0x801f irq 21 at device 16.1 on pci0 usb1: on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: port 0x7800-0x781f irq 21 at device 16.2 on pci0 usb2: on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: at device 16.3 (no driver attached) isab0: at device 17.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci2: port 0x7400-0x740f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 17.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci2 ata1: channel #1 on atapci2 pci0: at device 17.5 (no driver attached) vr0: port 0x7000-0x70ff mem 0xdd80-0xdd8000ff irq 23 at device 18.0 on pci0 miibus0: on vr0 rlphy0: on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto vr0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:6e:22:7b:e2 fdc0: port 0x3f7,0x3f2-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold ppbus0: on ppc0 plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A atkbdc0: port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 orm0: at iomem 0xd-0xd3fff,0xc-0xccfff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1791219738 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec acd0: CDROM at ata1-slave PIO4 ad4: 190782MB [387621/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad6: 190782MB [387621/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb
