Frank Shute-2 wrote:
I've had good luck with anything by Asus and Gigabyte. I tend to avoid
boards with bleeding edge hardware/features as these will not have
received so much testing (and may not even be supported) on FreeBSD.
This in practice means get a board that's been on sale for a
In my research and unwitting trials with this particular motherboard
(Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H), I found that, while it is generally well tolerated
by FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, the onboard RAID is completely incompatible. Even
when a RocketRAID 3120 card was used, the RAID could be built, but the ar0
Michael Powell-6 wrote:
Sorry to not be more helpful here, but the couple of times in the
past that I've used old Highpoints it was just create array, reboot,
install to ar0 (older PATA IDE array) and it was done.
Well, I've been on the phone with both Gigabyte's and Highpoint's
Michael Powell-6 wrote:
ThinkDifferently wrote:
In my BIOS there is the following...
Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter]
1. SCSI-0:: RocketRAID 3120 SATA C
2. Bootable Add-in Cards
So what happens when you choose 2. Bootable Add-in Cards, save the
setting
Another user wrote:
Try to reload a boot manager with the new boot order. It may be the bios
is
renumbering the drives with the boot order. I have several plug in cards
and have
had to to this. Boot manager is on ad0 but boot order looks to ad6 first.
You could
use another manager like
I need help with this. I'm trying to create a software RAID1. I followed
the instructions in man page
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrolsektion=8apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE
atacontrol(8)
atacontrol(8) wrote:
[snip]
A quick and dirty way to create such a
Michael Powell-6 wrote:
In your motherboard BIOS is there any entry that controls which controller
boots first? If so set it to boot from the add-in card first instead of
the
onboard controller.
In my BIOS there is the following...
Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter]
1. SCSI-0:
Steve Randall-2 wrote:
ThinkDifferently wrote:
Also, I've been able to determine that I don't have a RocketRAID device.
That's a separate RAID card, and I simply don't have one. What I have is
an
onboard NVIDIA NForce Storage Controller. I'm befuddled as to why
FreeBSD
thinks I
I'm currently looking for an ATX motherboard that supports the AM2+ socket,
Phenom Quad-Core processor, 4 DDR2 RAM slots (800 MHz is fine), 6 SATA ports
with RAID, and Gigabit LAN. Onboard VGA would be nice.
It needs to work well with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE, using a 2-disk SATA RAID1.
I'm
ThinkDifferently wrote:
I'm currently looking for an ATX motherboard...
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I do not need HTPC quality video and sound
from this thing. I know the mobo I mentioned has HTPC written all over it,
but it's the base qualities (processor, chipset, SATA, etc
michael-439 wrote:
disable dma specifically by escaping to the loader prompt and type
hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
Tried it. Didn't work.
michael-439 wrote:
you can also try loading the device as a scsi device with atapicam.
you could make this static on your iso by editing the loader.conf
michael-439 wrote:
if he would try it along with the atapicam, he would probably get
further. i had a similar issue and that was the solution. well, the
errors were the same, so it was the same issue.
he. Are you not talking to me any more?
Anyway, what is this atapicam option. How
Steve Bertrand-2 wrote:
ThinkDifferently wrote:
...some more interesting errors from bootup...
hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 10:34:18)
:confused:
acpi0: 052008 RSDT1050 on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Did you try the 'safe-mode' option from the loader menu?
Yes, to reiterate...
ThinkDifferently wrote:
I have tried booting from Boot-only, Disc1, LiveFS. Additionally, I've
tried the default boot, with ACPI disabled, Safe Mode, single user
mode, and verbose
Polytropon wrote:
ThinkDifferently wrote:
hptrr: no controller detected.
It looks like there's a proble with the hptrr driver? Have you
tried loading the HighPoint RocketRAID device drive by putting
hptrr_load=YES
into /boot/loader.conf?
Further information can
Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:24:17 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently
jer...@futurecis.com wrote:
Anyway, what is this atapicam option. How is it implemented, from the
loader prompt, editing the iso, or what? BTW, how would one edit the
iso?
The atapicam facility can either
I have a new system put together (see below). In booting it up for the first
time, it hangs.
I'm booting from a FreeBSD 7.0 distribution on a USB drive.
Here are the messages, in part...
.
.
.
sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300
vga0: at port
Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:09:44 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently wrote:
hptrr: no controller detected.
It looks like there's a proble with the hptrr driver? Have you
tried loading the HighPoint RocketRAID device drive by putting
hptrr_load=YES
into /boot
...some more interesting errors from bootup...My biz partner seemed
interested in these (don't know why)...
hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 10:34:18)
acpi0: 052008 RSDT1050 on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation of free0, 1000
Steve Bertrand-2 wrote:
AFAIK, your RocketRAID should be picked up by the 'twe' driver.
If you run a FreeBSD install disk (as opposed to boot-only), are you
provided with an install location (via sysinstall) as far as hard disks
are concerned?
Is this RAID array something that you can
ThinkDifferently wrote:
Steve Bertrand-2 wrote:
AFAIK, your RocketRAID should be picked up by the 'twe' driver.
If you run a FreeBSD install disk (as opposed to boot-only), are you
provided with an install location (via sysinstall) as far as hard disks
are concerned?
Is this RAID
Steve Bertrand-2 wrote:
Out of pure sheer curiosity, does the machine boot ok with the
boot-only if you pull the RAID card out of its slot?
There is no RAID card. Everything is on the motherboard.
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Another item of curiosity...
I just now tried booting from a CentOS 5.2 DVD. It also hangs with a little
window titled Loading SCSI driver that says Loading ahci driver... The
funny thing is, I've tried turning off all RAID functionality in the BIOS.
On my mobo, this entails setting it to IDE
ThinkDifferently wrote:
Another item of curiosity...
I just now tried booting from a CentOS 5.2 DVD. It also hangs with a
little window titled Loading SCSI driver that says Loading ahci
driver... The funny thing is, I've tried turning off all RAID
functionality in the BIOS. On my mobo
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