Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/10/2012 12:00 PM, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: Hi, i just forgot to add following output from FreeBSD 8.3: # atacontrol status ar0 ar0: ATA RAID1 status: READY subdisks: 0 ad4 ONLINE 1 ad6 ONLINE Thanks, Bosko Hi Bosko, For FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE see the release notes

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
# gmirror list gmirror: Command 'list' not available. # gmirror status gmirror: Command 'status' not available. gmirror load It is probably soft-RAID, but I prefer to use it though appropriate driver instead of classical software RAID configured through OS. i would recommend otherwise.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/10/2012 12:11 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It is always better to use gmirror instead of hardware RAID. One have full control over what is going on mmh not always. Nothing replaces a good hardware RAID card with a BBU for real reason i used parantheses for word hardware. That's clear

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bosko Radivojevic
Hi Bas, thank you for response. 'geom disk list' gives me list of disks, but 'geom raid load;geom raid list' doesn't give anything. I've tried 'geom load mirror', but 'geom mirror list' is also empty. What next? :) Thanks! ___

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's clear to me. These hardware raid controllers are not very reliable because they are indeed not real hardware raid controllers, but software based. Maybe for desktop usage it's ok/ good enough? precise what is desktop usage is. i don't see a reason for doing mirroring for home use. It

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
'geom raid load;geom raid list' doesn't give anything. I've tried 'geom load mirror', but 'geom mirror list' is also empty. what other do you expect with no mirrors created yet? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/10/2012 12:20 PM, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: Hi Bas, thank you for response. 'geom disk list' gives me list of disks, but 'geom raid load;geom raid list' doesn't give anything. I've tried 'geom load mirror', but 'geom mirror list' is also empty. What next? :) Thanks! Hi Bosko, I do not

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bosko Radivojevic
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: what other do you expect with no mirrors created yet? But mirror (raid10) array is created through LSI MegaRAID BIOS. I'm trying to replicate behaviour from FreeBSD 8.3 (array created through RAID BIOS, seen

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bosko Radivojevic
I proceeded with: graid label Intel raid RAID1 ada0 ada1. Hope this works what I want :) On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Bosko Radivojevic bosko.radivoje...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: what other do you expect with

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/10/2012 12:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: That's clear to me. These hardware raid controllers are not very reliable because they are indeed not real hardware raid controllers, but software based. Maybe for desktop usage it's ok/ good enough? precise what is desktop usage is. Here at

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: what other do you expect with no mirrors created yet? But mirror (raid10) array is created through LSI MegaRAID BIOS. I'm if it is RAID10 i assume you

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi Bosko, I do not have any experience with these kind of controllers, so I could just guess. I have a lot ;) but the only thing i always do is to disable RAID in BIOS just after receiving new machine. whole experience. ___

FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-09 Thread Bosko Radivojevic
Hi all! I have a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0 on Fujitsu Primergy RX200 S5 server with LSI MegaRAID SATA controller (two SATA HDDs in RAID1 array). When booted from a CD, FreeBSD doesn't recognize RAID Array, it recognizes HDDs only (ad4 ad6). On the same server, FreeBSD 8.3 installation