RE: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Howard <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > >>>> Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The >>>> 3ware ones lis

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Danny Howard
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? > >> The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty > >> expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card. Is 5.3

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > > RAID1. I'm looking into gmirror, but it seems like it might be messy if > one of the drives dies. What makes you say that? I have gmirror running and I simulated drive failures on both controllers, and reconstructed the provide

RE: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Howard <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Loiterman wrote: > >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3?

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Danny Howard
Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card. Is 5.3 compatible with any of the adpatec or

<$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-14 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card. Is 5.3 compatible with any of the adpatec or promise cards

SATA H6300ESB

2005-03-09 Thread Dmitry Kozhevnikov
Hello, I have a Supermicro P4SC8 motherboard on Intel® E7210 (Canterwood ES) Chipset with Intel® H6300ESB Serial ATA Controller. Then RAID 1 on two Western Digital SATA HDDs created, FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and 6.0-CURRENT still detect them separately (e.g. ad4 and ad6), and no RAID functionality

SATA RAID controllers

2005-03-04 Thread Steven King
Dear Sirs, Does FreeBSD 4.1 support the Intel E7201 SATA Raid controller. Best regards, Steven King. Technical Manager, Pathfinder Telecom Limited. +44 1202 587234 (Direct) +44 7802 706931 (Mobile) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-28 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Garance A Drosihn writes: > First question: which SATA controller are you using? The controller is built into the Asus P4P800-E motherboard, and is based on the Intel ICH5R southbridge chipset. There's also a Promise 20378 RAID controller on board but I do NOT use it (disabled in BIOS)

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-28 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > Rule of thumb on IDE hard drives, if they show more than a few errors > with a tool like smartmon, they need to be thrown in the garbage. Seems prudent to me, but right now I don't have the budget to replace this drive (yes, 40 GB IDE drives are cheap, but I don't have

RE: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 2:10 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE > > > Mike

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
The referenced drive is one of two identical SATA drives on the server; it holds /tmp and /var. I don't recall seeing these messages before. Is there a way to work backwards from the LBA to the filesystem so that I can see which file was being referenced when this occurred? First question:

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
d help you narrow down >> what the problem might be. > > >The two SATA drives show no errors. The older IDE drive (which contains >the filesystem root) shows the stuff below. There have been over 1000 > >Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging Try running s

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
a Windows port so I can use it on my XP machine. The two SATA drives show no errors. The older IDE drive (which contains the filesystem root) shows the stuff below. There have been over 1000 read errors over the lifetime of the disk, but the disk had some hard times back in December when it was

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Actually, it's not that hard. You need three mappings: > > 1. (lba address, (filesystem, block #)) > 2. ((filesystem, block #), (filesystem, inode #)) > 3. ((filesystem, inode #), (list of filenames linking to inode #)) Seems like it would be straightforward with adequ

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:53:30 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I've gotten two messages like the ones below today on my production server >(5.3-RELEASE): > >messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 >retries left) LBA=4848803 >messages:Feb 2

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:19:32PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Theoretically, one could use 'fsdb -r' in a scripted manner, to > > generate a mapping of file names to blocks (relative to the partition > > of the file system you are mapping). Once you have the

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Theoretically, one could use 'fsdb -r' in a scripted manner, to > generate a mapping of file names to blocks (relative to the partition > of the file system you are mapping). Once you have the blocks, you'll > need to do so artithmetics to map those blocks to LBA addres

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:53:30PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying > (2 retries left) LBA=4848803 > messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out [...] > Is there a way to work backwards

WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
sages mean? The referenced drive is one of two identical SATA drives on the server; it holds /tmp and /var. I don't recall seeing these messages before. Is there a way to work backwards from the LBA to the filesystem so that I can see which file was being referenced when this occurred? -

A Dell PowerEdge SC1425 (SATA) and 5.3?

2005-02-12 Thread Peter Wood
Hey folks, Just a quick question, I've heard in general that fBSD works well with most Dell equipment, but does anyone know of any specific issues with the SC1425 and 5.3? I searched google and found about 18 results of no use :/. If anyone has an news, success or otherwise, please let me know

Re: Boot problem with SATA

2005-02-09 Thread Derrick Ryalls
> I've problem with booting my PC. The hardward is (something like) > > AMD FX 55 > Two SATA disk with Nvidia NForce 3 for raid > One disk IDE. > > The Two SATA disk is for WinXP > > I want install some real OS in the IDE disk, but the problem is I don'

Boot problem with SATA

2005-02-08 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I've problem with booting my PC. The hardward is (something like) AMD FX 55 Two SATA disk with Nvidia NForce 3 for raid One disk IDE. The Two SATA disk is for WinXP I want install some real OS in the IDE disk, but the problem is I don't know how I can choose boot devi

Re: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATA RAID on ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe

2005-02-05 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Saturday 05 February 2005 15:38, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > Hello, > > Is anyone using the Silicon Image SiI 3114 controller on an ASUS P5GD2 > Deluxe motherboard? AFAICS, FreeBSD 5.3 supports the controller, but > I can't seem to get the installer to see the SATA RAID 1 a

Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATA RAID on ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe

2005-02-05 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, Is anyone using the Silicon Image SiI 3114 controller on an ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe motherboard? AFAICS, FreeBSD 5.3 supports the controller, but I can't seem to get the installer to see the SATA RAID 1 array that I set up using the BIOS. The only disks in the system are two identical

Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-22 Thread markzero
> These Maxtor drives may well be flaky, but they are very widely > available and frequently installed in commodity machines. Maxtor drives are flaky? Oh dear. How flaky? Mine is starting to get a bit noisy. Mark pgpvnwXSK9tOO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-21 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 17:24 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: [top post moved down] > On Friday 21 January 2005 02:55 am, you wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 02:42 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: > > > Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors > > &

Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-21 Thread Justin L. Boss
0, Justin L. Boss wrote: > > Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors > > that lock up the system. > > Assuming you are using FreeBSD 5.x then yes, this is a known problem, > there has been some traffic about this issue on this list in recent > mon

Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-21 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 02:42 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: > Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors that > lock up the system. Assuming you are using FreeBSD 5.x then yes, this is a known problem, there has been some traffic about this issue on this list in

Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-21 Thread Davide D'Amico
Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors that Could u provide more informations? I have a SATA raid-1 (160gb disks) on a cheap ataraid controller (builtin in an asus a7v880 mobo): no problem at all. dave ___ freebsd

300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-21 Thread Justin L. Boss
Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors that lock up the system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Support for Marvell SATA chip on SuperMicro P4SCT+ MB

2004-12-29 Thread Gent Cav
Is anybody working to support Marvell SATA chip (88SX5040) found on the SuperMicro P4SCT+ motherboard? I would like to find out if this device will be supported. Linux drivers are available for this: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SATA/Adaptec_Marvell_H1/Linux/ REF: http://www.marvell.com

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-25 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jonathan Reeder -- > Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, > is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a > software RAID instead of relying on the controller? > > I've never used S

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-21 Thread Peter Giessel
On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at 07:15AM, Roger. O. Svenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jonathan Reeder wrote: > >>Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is >>there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a softw

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-21 Thread Roger. O. Svenning
Jonathan Reeder wrote: Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying on the controller? I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer

RE: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-21 Thread Jonathan Reeder
Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying on the controller? I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer is greatly a

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question

2004-12-21 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jonathan Reeder -- > Hmm, well since I'm stuck with the hardware that I've been given, does > that mean that I need to pursue a different OS? I'd love to run FreeBSD > on this server, but I can't change any of its hardware so do I need to > look at Linux? I am not a Fre

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question

2004-12-20 Thread Jonathan Reeder
ng wrote: > Jonathan Reeder wrote: > > >I just got a Dell PowerEdge SC420 (or something like that) with the CERC > >SATA 2S RAID. When the server boots, the Adaptec utility tells me that I > >have one array configured, a RAID 1 with 2 drives. However, when I launch > &

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question

2004-12-20 Thread Roger. O. Svenning
Jonathan Reeder wrote: I just got a Dell PowerEdge SC420 (or something like that) with the CERC SATA 2S RAID. When the server boots, the Adaptec utility tells me that I have one array configured, a RAID 1 with 2 drives. However, when I launch the 5.3 installer and go to Allocate Disk Space

Dell CERC SATA 2S question

2004-12-20 Thread Jonathan Reeder
I just got a Dell PowerEdge SC420 (or something like that) with the CERC SATA 2S RAID. When the server boots, the Adaptec utility tells me that I have one array configured, a RAID 1 with 2 drives. However, when I launch the 5.3 installer and go to Allocate Disk Space options, it sees two drives

PDC20319 4 ports SATA and the RAID1

2004-12-11 Thread Claude B.
Here the reply from Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le sam 11/12/2004 à 12:19, Søren Schmidt a écrit : > Claude B. wrote: > > kernel: atapci0: port > 0xb400-0xb47f,0xb800-0xb80f,0xbc00-0xbc3f mem > 0xfc96-0xfc97,0xfc99f000-0xfc99 irq 27 at device 5.0 on pci2 > kernel: atapci0: f

PDC20319 4 ports SATA and the RAID1

2004-12-11 Thread Claude B.
Hello, I just install FreeBSD5.3 on Asus "PSCH-L" motherboard. There is a onboard ship Promise PDC20319 4 ports SATA and the RAID1 is setup in the BIOS "FastBuild(tm) Utility2.01(c) 2002-2005 Promise". The kernel messages and the next commands:"atacontrol list" and

Cannot Add 7th SATA disk

2004-12-10 Thread Brad Jahnke
I am using FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p5 #1. I have 6 SATA hard drives installed, and a 7th disk recognized by the kernel but is not visible via sysinstall (i.e, ad16 does not appear in the lists when trying to Fdisk or Label) and nor am I able to add it manually via dd, fdisk, disklable, newfs, etc

Re: Intel ICH5 SATA controler on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-08 Thread David Kelly
On Dec 7, 2004, at 7:57 PM, Mail Admin wrote: I have it working, though could not manage to get the hardware RAID going: An ICH5 doesn't necessarily have "hardware" RAID. My Del PE400SC does not. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel ICH5 SATA controler on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-08 Thread David Kelly
On Dec 7, 2004, at 7:33 PM, Mário Gamito wrote: Searching in the hardware suported by 5.3 i see no (obvious) reference to Intel ICH5 SATA disk controler. But googling for "intel ich5 freebsd", there are lots os links about this issue. Some talk about patches, even in this list, seve

Re: Intel ICH5 SATA controler on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-07 Thread Mail Admin
, Nigel. Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, Searching in the hardware suported by 5.3 i see no (obvious) reference to Intel ICH5 SATA disk controler. But googling for "intel ich5 freebsd", there are lots os links about this issue. Some talk about patches, even in this list, several months before 5

Intel ICH5 SATA controler on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-07 Thread Mário Gamito
Hi, Searching in the hardware suported by 5.3 i see no (obvious) reference to Intel ICH5 SATA disk controler. But googling for "intel ich5 freebsd", there are lots os links about this issue. Some talk about patches, even in this list, several months before 5.3 In the end, i do not kn

Re: Intel S875WP1 w/ SATA HostRAID

2004-12-07 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:00:55 -0700, Chris Burchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to use a server with an Intel S875WP1 motherboard with > Embedded Adaptec SATA HostRAID. > > Using FreeBSD 4.10 - when I get to sysinstall it says "No Disks Found!". > &

Intel S875WP1 w/ SATA HostRAID

2004-12-07 Thread Chris Burchell
I am trying to use a server with an Intel S875WP1 motherboard with Embedded Adaptec SATA HostRAID. Using FreeBSD 4.10 - when I get to sysinstall it says "No Disks Found!". Is there any way I can get the system to recognize the SATA RAID? Che

Re: sata and IDE working in the same machine

2004-11-29 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:55:45 + "Marta Resende" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can i conciliate two hdd, one SATA and one IDE, to work in the same > machine with freebsd ?? > > my IDE is my old 40gb disk, and i would like to put a new hdd ... or > should i put

sata and IDE working in the same machine

2004-11-29 Thread Marta Resende
Can i conciliate two hdd, one SATA and one IDE, to work in the same machine with freebsd ?? my IDE is my old 40gb disk, and i would like to put a new hdd ... or should i put another IDE? thks _ Don't just search. Find. Chec

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:08 AM +0100 11/22/04, Questions wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Unless something happened in the past week or so, you can still have WRITE_DMA problems with the SiL 3112 if you connect a "fake SATA" drive to it, such as some of the Western Digital drives. ... These drives seem to

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:08 AM +0100 11/22/04, Questions wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 9:33 AM +0100 11/22/04, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote: If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). Unless something happened in the past

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Questions
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 9:33 AM +0100 11/22/04, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote: If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). I've seen cards starting at 10$. Almost all low-cost cards have this chip s

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:33 AM +0100 11/22/04, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote: If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). I've seen cards starting at 10$. Almost all low-cost cards have this chip series, meanwhile on 5.3 it s

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Stephan Fiebrandt
mise SATA150 TX2Plus, so I would like some tips. Two harddrives will be attached for now, maybe more later. Alot of data transfer. I have an 5.3-can running. 3ware SATA controller cards. These are "true" RAID controller cards instead of the tons of "ata" controllers with b

Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-20 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
Had some bad experience with my previous one: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus, so I would like some tips. Two harddrives will be attached for now, maybe more later. Alot of data transfer. I have an 5.3-can running. -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___

5.3/AMD64 fails to detect ARAID-99 PATA unit when booting Tyan S2882 from a SATA unit

2004-11-19 Thread allan
. I have added a new SOHORAID based on the same electronics, but with a SATA interface. Last night I installed a test copy of FreeBSD 5.3 on the new SATA unit using fresh drives. Because the Tyan BIOS is weak concerning boot devices I had to go into a screen and make the SATA controller the #1

5.3/AMD64 fails to detect ARAID-99 PATA unit when booting Tyan S2882 from a SATA drive

2004-11-19 Thread Cesium
worked fine. I have a new SOHORAID based on the same electronics, but with a SATA interface. Last night I installed FreeBSD 5.3 on the new SATA unit because the drives were new and empty. Later I intend the ARAID-99 to become the system volume and the SOHORAID to function as the data volume

Re: sil3112a SATA Controller, current status

2004-11-18 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, > I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my system that has an onboard > Silicon Image sil3112a SATA controller and a Western Digital Raptor > WD740 74GB HD, for a few months now, with no luck. Pain. > First I tried 5.2.1, which installs fine but starts to spew DMA > t

Re: sil3112a SATA Controller, current status

2004-11-18 Thread Søren Schmidt
Maseed wrote: [SNIP] I have to point out in the above e-mail that the problem is not just confined to the 36GB Raptor, which might be a PATA drive with a Marvel chip to make it work with SATA drives, but it also plages *real* native SATA drives as well, since the 74GB Western Digital Raptor I have

sil3112a SATA Controller, current status

2004-11-18 Thread Maseed
Hi, I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my system that has an onboard Silicon Image sil3112a SATA controller and a Western Digital Raptor WD740 74GB HD, for a few months now, with no luck. First I tried 5.2.1, which installs fine but starts to spew DMA timeout messages when put under any

best hardware for SATA on 5.3

2004-11-12 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
I have an Abit NF7 board and I have purchased 2 SATA hard disk, and extended the board with an STLab card wich uses the Sil 3112A chip. This card has an OTP EPROM, so bios version 4.2.12 is not updateable. I have TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors during drive access. I have read in the archives that

Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

2004-11-05 Thread steveb99
Marc G. Fournier wrote: "Dual-channel SATA 100 (two connectors) integrated with RAID 0 and 1 support" If I have 4 drives in the above, could I stripe two to each other and then mirror those together? Or is it strip *or* mirror? also, not sure if this is a no brainer, but would FreeB

3Ware Controllers (Was: Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...)

2004-11-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Scott Gerhardt wrote: There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, bu

Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

2004-11-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Scott Gerhardt wrote: There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but all of those onboard RAID controllers are no

Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

2004-11-05 Thread Scott Gerhardt
There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but all of those onboard RAID controllers are not true hardware raid (Host raid) and

Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

2004-11-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
"Dual-channel SATA 100 (two connectors) integrated with RAID 0 and 1 support" If I have 4 drives in the above, could I stripe two to each other and then mirror those together? Or is it strip *or* mirror? also, not sure if this is a no brainer, but would FreeBSD support that resul

RE: atacontrol and SATA RAID

2004-10-29 Thread Putinas Piliponis
atacontrol addspare ar0 ad6 should do the trick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giovanni P. Tirloni Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: atacontrol and SATA RAID Giovanni P

Re: atacontrol and SATA RAID

2004-10-29 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote: Hi, I've a Intel SE7210TP1 motherboard with Adaptec HostRAID and I've created a RAID1 array with 2 SATA disks using the following command: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6 The system installed on /dev/ar0 just fine and I played a bit with atacontrol det

SATA Raid support

2004-10-28 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that does true hardware RAID and works with 4.10 Release? I can't find any definitive documentation for this... All I seem to find are conflicting or incomplete reports via google and mailing lists. I know the twe driver supports 3Ware Escalade, but

atacontrol and SATA RAID

2004-10-28 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Hi, I've a Intel SE7210TP1 motherboard with Adaptec HostRAID and I've created a RAID1 array with 2 SATA disks using the following command: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6 The system installed on /dev/ar0 just fine and I played a bit with atacontrol detaching and attaching

Intel® ICH5-R SATA controllers

2004-09-30 Thread Anthony Carmody
has anyone managed to test or use Intel® ICH5-R SATA controllers? (RAID 0 and 1)?? i see they are unsupported, but do they work anyhow? Intel® ICH5-R SATA controllers -- /carmoda /carmoda at gmail dot com /carmoda at jabber dot org /wuh wuh wuh carmoda dot com

Confused about SATA Raid

2004-09-30 Thread Brent Wiese
I installed FreeBSD 5.3 Beta 6 today on an Intel s875wp1-e server board. I enabled RAID on the ICH5 SATA ports. Using its BIOS, I built a 2 drive mirror. FreeBSD saw both the native disks (ad4 and ad6). I installed to ad4. I ran "atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6". It said ar0 was cre

SATA under 4.10

2004-09-17 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
The hardware notes aren't too clear on this, but does anyone know the model of card I would have to buy to make SATA work under 4.10? I think the hardware notes refer to chipsets, and I don't know of the correlations. -Dan -- "When I'm lost, and confused, and trying to ma

Re: Asus A7N8X-E w/SATA and SCSI, 4.10 sys install snafu

2004-09-11 Thread Lee Harr
Does anyone have experience with this motherboard, in particular using sata drives? Any ideas what's going on, and how to proceed? I was hoping this was going to be relatively painless :-( Do I need to bag 4.10 and go with 5.3 to get this to work? I have an A7N8X-deluxe. And quite

Asus A7N8X-E w/SATA and SCSI, 4.10 sys install snafu

2004-09-10 Thread Gary Aitken
Just built a new system: Asus A7N8X-E motherboard, Athlon XP 2600+ 2 SATA seagate drives Old buslogic SCSI controller with 2 drives, a cd, and a tape. ATI compatible radeon 9000 agp 4x video card The scsi disks have win nt images on them, from a previous system so I can continue running it

Problem installing on VIA 8237 SATA

2004-08-23 Thread Greg Gladwell
I'm trying to install 5.2.1 on a machine with a VIA 8237 SATA controller. Although the controller is detected on boot the same is not true for the drive (a 200GB Seagate Barracuda). According to the man page the controller is fully supported and having STFW I can't find anything useful

Re: SATA drive bootable ???

2004-08-18 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: Hi I don't know about the controller but in general this should work. Just make proper adjustments in your BIOS. I'm booting FreeBSD from an SATA RAID0. Works perfectly fine. My BIOS doesn't show any boot options for SATA, neither does

Re: SATA drive bootable ???

2004-08-17 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi I don't know about the controller but in general this should work. Just make proper adjustments in your BIOS. I'm booting FreeBSD from an SATA RAID0. Works perfectly fine. Cheers, Ben On Tuesday 17 August 2004 07:53, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hi! > > I just started

Re: SATA drive bootable ???

2004-08-17 Thread K. Greenwood
--- Peter Ulrich Kruppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I just started playing around with my new SATA disk > (with SATA > 150 TX2plus controller on -CURRENT). I can mount and > format it > all-right. > > Is it generally posssible to boot from such a di

SATA drive bootable ???

2004-08-17 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi! I just started playing around with my new SATA disk (with SATA 150 TX2plus controller on -CURRENT). I can mount and format it all-right. Is it generally posssible to boot from such a disk (different question would be if it made sense to do so)? My SATA drive is recognized as ata2-master

Re: 3ware SATA controllers working with 4.10?

2004-08-02 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 2, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Bill Moran wrote: There are a few SATA controllers listed as supported in 4.10, but I'm not seeing anything from 3ware. If you saw a recent post, you know that I've inheritied some hardware, and I'm just trying to make sure that FreeBSD is going

3ware SATA controllers working with 4.10?

2004-08-02 Thread Bill Moran
There are a few SATA controllers listed as supported in 4.10, but I'm not seeing anything from 3ware. If you saw a recent post, you know that I've inheritied some hardware, and I'm just trying to make sure that FreeBSD is going to run prior to blowing away the Linux install. Any

Re: SATA support in FreeBSD

2004-07-11 Thread zam4ever
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:00:04 -0700 (PDT), jam man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will be using a silicon image (integrated) raid > controller in my new system for sata. Does anyone have > a link to a list of supported sata controllers for > freebsd? http://www.freebsd.org/relea

SATA support in FreeBSD

2004-07-11 Thread jam man
I will be using a silicon image (integrated) raid controller in my new system for sata. Does anyone have a link to a list of supported sata controllers for freebsd? Also, has anyone besides me know about the new maxtor maxline III hard drives? They use NCQ (native command queuing) to gain

Support for Promise pdc20378 SATA controller

2004-06-29 Thread Jim Mozley
I am inquiring about support for the promise pdc20378 SATA RAID controller on a Tyan Tomcat S5012G3NR motherboard. I am about to take delivery of a server with this hardware and wanted to mirror two disks. The supplier is preloading FreeBSD (I'm a new to this OS) but says there are pro

A board with SATA + console redirection (Intel SE7210TP1 orS875WP1)?

2004-06-11 Thread H. Sandring (WBInf. DWHuM)
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SATA RAID support on VIA VT8237?

2004-06-05 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi, I'm wondering if SATA RAID 1 is suppored on the VT8237. The hardware notes for 4.10 say the chipset it supported but nothing about the RAID capabilities. So now I'm wondering if I need to stick in a Highpoint expansion card (cause those sure as hell do work) or if I can use t

A board with SATA + console redirection (Intel SE7210TP1 or S875WP1)?

2004-05-14 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
Hi, I am looking for a single-CPU (Intel or AMD) board which supports SATA and console redirection for moderate price (say, less than $250). What I have found so far are Intel entry server boards SE7210TP1 and S875WP1. Does anybody have any experience with them? In particular, I am wondering

Trouble with FreeBSD 5.2.1 and SATA

2004-05-12 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I posted a message recently about troubles encountered with FreeBSD-5.x and my SATA drives, controlled by an on-board Silicon Image chip. I understand there were some code glitches in between and thus my update via CVS and subsequent rebuild of the system created a problem. However, just to be

Problem to install 5.2.1 on SATA disk chipset VT8237

2004-05-11 Thread pl . smith
Hi, Freebsd Release 5.2.1 i've bought a Gigabyte GA-7VM400MF-P with the chipset VIA KM400 and VIA VT8237 for the controller i've harddrive on the sata controller, and boot sysinstall from the cdrom, all start well but the harddrives aren't recognized..? there is no disks... so af

Re: SATA

2004-05-05 Thread Dan Strick
> Controller. > Is SATA support not yet implemented in RC2 but in the 4.9? Or is SATA only > supported in 5.x? > What can I do? >> FreeBSD supports some but not all ATA/SATA controllers. I believe release 5.2.1 has some support for the SiI 3112 chip but release 4.x does

SATA

2004-05-03 Thread Florian
Hi! On advice, I downloaded FreeBSD 4.10 RC2 (because 5.2.1 would not work) but can't install it because the installer does not find my HDD which is a 120gb Seagate drive on an on-board Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller. Is SATA support not yet implemented in RC2 but in the 4.9?

Re: SATA

2004-05-03 Thread Florian
-i386.html#AEN65 kbye. Florian wrote: Hi! On advice, I downloaded FreeBSD 4.10 RC2 (because 5.2.1 would not work) but can't install it because the installer does not find my HDD which is a 120gb Seagate drive on an on-board Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller. Is SATA support not

Re: SATA

2004-05-03 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Florian wrote: > On advice, I downloaded FreeBSD 4.10 RC2 (because 5.2.1 would not work) > but can't install it because the installer does not find my HDD which is a > 120gb Seagate drive on an on-board Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid > Controller. > Is

Fastrak s150 tx4 SATA Raid help

2004-04-19 Thread Brent Wiese
I have an onboard Promise s150 tx4 SATA raid chip. Anyone have any luck running this under FreeBSD 4.9? Will it run under 4.9? Any experiences with it under 5.x? Due to already overbudgeting on this particular box, moving to a 3ware card is unlikely unless I can't for 100% sure get it ru

Re: SATA

2004-04-05 Thread Jorn Argelo
, Jorn On 4/6/2004, "Chris Knipe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Lo all, > >How much of SATA is supported in FreeBSD?? A couple of questions if I may > >Firstly, is the Adaptec 2819SA (8-Port SATA RAID Controller) supported by FreeBSD >(4.8/4.9), and if it is,

SATA

2004-04-05 Thread Chris Knipe
Lo all, How much of SATA is supported in FreeBSD?? A couple of questions if I may Firstly, is the Adaptec 2819SA (8-Port SATA RAID Controller) supported by FreeBSD (4.8/4.9), and if it is, will a ufs file system cope with a 2TB, or bigger partition (8 x 250GB SATA). I then also presume

promise SATA controller card Support on freebsd 4.8

2004-03-31 Thread manuel taveras f.
Hello I wanna know if possible that will get support for Promise SATA 150TX2plus in freebsd/i386 4.8 relase, cause don´t show in hardwares Notes if´s possible please let me know Thanks. _ Las mejores

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