Re: Re-add lost device entries without a reboot; troubleshoot RAID card

2013-07-15 Thread Jason Birch
the drive or possibly the card itself? I suppose the obvious Move it off the raid card is probably a good first start... $ uname -a FreeBSD blackfyre 9.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Mon Jun 17 11:42:37 UTC 2013 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

Re: Re-add lost device entries without a reboot; troubleshoot RAID card

2013-07-15 Thread Jason Birch
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Jason Birch jbi...@jbirch.net wrote: I should note that `camcontrol rescan 0` (Or `camcontrol rescan all`) won't find da0. For those who stumble upon this thread later looking for answers, I'm almost certain the problem I'm seeing is the same as described in

Re-add lost device entries without a reboot; troubleshoot RAID card

2013-07-14 Thread Jason Birch
a check for negative permissions on the zfs partition) and the second failure was during a SMART long test, so I guess there's potential for load there. How might I go about diagnosing whether this is just the drive or possibly the card itself? I suppose the obvious Move it off the raid card is probably

ZFS: raid VS copies=n

2013-06-07 Thread Quartz
Question: How does the ZFS option 'copies=n' and raid relate to and interact with each other? specifically recovery in the event of a failure. For example, is having three disks in a raid-1 configuration with copies=1 effectively the same as having three disks in a raid-0 with copies=3

Re: ZFS: raid VS copies=n

2013-06-07 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
07.06.2013 18:52, Quartz: Question: How does the ZFS option 'copies=n' and raid relate to and interact with each other? specifically recovery in the event of a failure. For example, is having three disks in a raid-1 configuration with copies=1 effectively the same as having three disks

Re: ZFS: raid VS copies=n

2013-06-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 07), Quartz said: How does the ZFS option 'copies=n' and raid relate to and interact with each other? specifically recovery in the event of a failure. For example, is having three disks in a raid-1 configuration with copies=1 effectively the same as having three

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Modulok
My other concern is what happens when one drive goes down if we use gmirror? Is it completelly transparent and bad drive can be hot swapped while server is running and rebuild started? I am thinking now about gpt+gmirror (including boot and swap) Artem Yes. In fact, you can test this by

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Artem Kuchin
30.01.2013 1:01, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote: I am planning to use mirror configuration of two SATA 7200rpm 2TB disks. I personally vote for gmirror in this case; I've used it a lot and found it very good wrt to both performance and robustness. You can spend the extra money you spare on the

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Artem Kuchin
30.01.2013 18:06, Warren Block: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 30.01.2013 1:01, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Kraus
On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: You can spend the extra money you spare on the controller buying good disks; as someone else pointed out don't get desktop-class ones, but 24x7 ones. Server Class drives buy you some improvement, but my recent experience with Seagate

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Artem Kuchin
There seems to be one more advantage to gmirror If i understood correctly gmirror label -v -b split -s 2048 data da0 da1 da2 will create a tripple mirror raid 1, that is triple redundancy, which is hardly available on any hardware raid. Am i correct here? Also, does anyone know how to choose

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 30.01.2013 18:06, Warren Block: GPT partitions should work, just limit it to one mirrored partition per drive. Please, clarify what you mean here. If only one GPT partition on a drive is mirrored with another GPT partition on another drive, head

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Kraus
On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Warren Block wrote: If you want to use the same drive for booting, it's possible. Create all three partitions on both drives manually. Then mirror the freebsd-ufs partition only. The contents of the freebsd-boot partition don't change often, and swap does

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Artem Kuchin
, but if first disk is brain damaged then bios may just stuck trying to boot from it and will not pass boot attempt to the second disk. I don't know, it depends on bios of course. But this seems to be a disadvantage to a software raid. Artem ___ freebsd

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Warren Block
, but if first disk is brain damaged then bios may just stuck trying to boot from it and will not pass boot attempt to the second disk. I don't know, it depends on bios of course. But this seems to be a disadvantage to a software raid. That's true. The similar situation with hardware RAID is when

Old FreeBSD server, raid issues.

2013-01-29 Thread Brent Clark
Good day I have an old machine that has lost its raid (0/ stripe). Im trying to fix this. If I go [root@torry /usr/home/bclark]# gstripe list Geom name: st0 State: UP Status: Total=3, Online=3 Type: AUTOMATIC Stripesize: 65536 ID: 1006591079 Providers: 1. Name: stripe/st0 Mediasize

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-29 Thread Artem Kuchin
29.01.2013 11:54, Michael Powell: Artem Kuchin wrote: I guess what I'm trying to point out is that low performance wrt software RAID will stem from other things besides just simply consuming a few CPU cycles. Today's CPUs have the cycles to spare. I've been using gmirror for RAID 1 mirrors

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-29 Thread Michael Powell
. I hope to see the same on a software raid. The controller would be a slight concern. But for what you've described doing I doubt it will be a big deal. The 3Ware may have a faster processor on it than say a generic onboard built-in. But since all we're talking here is a RAID 1 mirror my guess

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: My other concern is what happens when one drive goes down if we use gmirror? Is it completelly transparent and bad drive can be hot swapped while server is running and rebuild started? I am thinking now about gpt+gmirror (including boot and swap) As

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-29 Thread Artem Kuchin
29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to mirror GPT partitions, but be aware that if you mirror more than one partition

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Felder
thrash the heads as mirrors are rebuilt simultaneously. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html Why isn't gmirror more intelligent? I hate to use Linux as an example, but mdadm won't simultaneously rebuild multiple RAID sets if they use the same physical

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to mirror GPT partitions, but be aware

Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-28 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server. The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good options they do not provide hardware raid or even if they do it is not the best hardware for freebsd. The server base conf is 8core 32gb ram 2.8+ ghz. So, maybe

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-28 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote: Hello! I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server. The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good options they do not provide hardware raid or even if they do it is not the best hardware for freebsd. The server base

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-28 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote: Hello! I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server. The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good options they do not provide hardware raid or even if they do

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Kraus
On Jan 28, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Artem Kuchin wrote: I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server. The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good options they do not provide hardware raid or even if they do it is not the best hardware for freebsd. I prefer SW

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-28 Thread Michael Powell
Artem Kuchin wrote: Hello! I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server. The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good options they do not provide hardware raid or even if they do it is not the best hardware for freebsd. The server base conf is 8core

Re: Dell H710 and H310 Raid Controller

2012-12-17 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
Does bcm5720 support committed to 9-Stable? On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Sean Bruno sean...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 05:47 -0800, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: It seems right now only way to go with Rx20 Server models is to use Intel cards (dell provides i350 chipset

Re: Dell H710 and H310 Raid Controller

2012-11-04 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
Hi, Just tried 9.1-RC3 with R720 which has H710p( the only difference with H710 is 1 gb cache instead of 512mb ). It has recognized both H710p raid as mfid0 and also network cards are recognized as bgeX (*BCM5720)* but network cards times out (watchdog timeout) I think it is about http

Re: Dell H710 and H310 Raid Controller

2012-11-04 Thread Sean Bruno
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 05:47 -0800, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: It seems right now only way to go with Rx20 Server models is to use Intel cards (dell provides i350 chipset network interfaces as alternative) The Broadcom 5720 support is in current right now. It will not be in 9.1, but will be

Dell H710 and H310 Raid Controller

2012-11-01 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
Hi, Can anyone in this list verify that both RAID controllers are supported on FreeBSD 8.3 or 9.1 H710 has LSISAS2208 dual-core PowerPC ROC H310 has LSISAS2008. I am planning to use these controllers on R420 and R320 Dell Servers. I would also like to get comments on these two platfoms

supermicro sat2-mv8 sata raid card driver

2012-10-22 Thread ds
Hello, are there any plans to provide a driver for the supermicro sat2-mv8 (8-port) sata raid card ? Kind regards, Dirk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

question about prblem with raid 1 for freeBSD

2012-06-22 Thread dude golden
HI there, hope my email find you well, i recently order a server with below configuration INTEL 1x Quad-Core i5-2500 3.3GHz, 6M Cache 16GB DDR3 2x 500GB SATAII then ask from my COLOCATION to install FreeBSD 8.2 or 8.3 with RAID 1, after many times of fail in installation from colocation

Re: question about prblem with raid 1 for freeBSD

2012-06-22 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/22/12 11:11 AM, dude golden wrote: HI there, hope my email find you well, i recently order a server with below configuration INTEL 1x Quad-Core i5-2500 3.3GHz, 6M Cache 16GB DDR3 2x 500GB SATAII then ask from my COLOCATION to install FreeBSD 8.2 or 8.3 with RAID 1, after

Re: question about prblem with raid 1 for freeBSD

2012-06-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/06/2012 10:11, dude golden wrote: INTEL 1x Quad-Core i5-2500 3.3GHz, 6M Cache 16GB DDR3 2x 500GB SATAII then ask from my COLOCATION to install FreeBSD 8.2 or 8.3 with RAID 1, after many times of fail in installation from colocation they said that we have problem with RAID 1.we

Re: problem with RAID 1 and requesting for solutions

2012-06-22 Thread shahram haghnia
3.3GHz, 6M Cache 16GB DDR3 2x 500GB SATAII then ask from my COLOCATION to install FreeBSD 8.2 or 8.3 with RAID 1, after many times of fail in installation from colocation they said that we have problem with RAID 1.we suggest them to play with different kind of RAID like RAID 5 and they said

Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
the system setup menu, the boot menu shows that freebsd90 is the first (and only) bootable hard drive. Yet when I try to install FreeBSD 9.0-R, FreeBSD ignores the hardware RAID and sees the two separate drives, instead of seeing a single logical drive. good lesson to NEVER use this pseudo

Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
FreeBSD will use a hardware RAID device -only- if the particular type of RAID chip/chipset/controller is known to the included device drivers. do not use hardware RAID for such things as this is nothing else than normal controller and BIOS/driver support

Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
From woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Sat May 19 06:51:00 2012 Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 13:48:18 +0200 (CEST) From: User Wojtek woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, te...@sunset.tx.net Subject: Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1

Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
I used 'hardware RAID' because that is -precisely- how the OP described their equipment. unfortunately this is true - it is DESCRIBED as such. lie is standard tool in todays IT marketing. What are facts: - very few controllers actually have some RAID support. those usually have onboard RAM

Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-18 Thread tess lamont
I created a RAID 1 drive in a Dell Optiplex 755, using the internal RAID controller and two 160GB drives, naming the logical drive freebsd90. Within the system setup menu, the boot menu shows that freebsd90 is the first (and only) bootable hard drive. Yet when I try to install FreeBSD 9.0-R

Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri May 18 15:12:56 2012 Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 14:58:26 -0500 (CDT) From: tess lamont te...@sunset.tx.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation I created

Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-18 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 18 May 2012, tess lamont wrote: I created a RAID 1 drive in a Dell Optiplex 755, using the internal RAID controller and two 160GB drives, naming the logical drive freebsd90. Within the system setup menu, the boot menu shows that freebsd90 is the first (and only) bootable hard drive

Resetting RAID1 drive as Non-RAID

2012-02-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a FreeBSD 9.0 server with an Intel RAID card that has two array mirrors of which one has failed. The remote host was not responding and had it reset to find in the RAID utility one of the drives had failed one of the RAID 1 arrays. Perhaps I shouldn't have, but I told the utility to use

Re: Resetting RAID1 drive as Non-RAID

2012-02-10 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/10/2012 7:15 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a FreeBSD 9.0 server with an Intel RAID card that has two array mirrors of which one has failed. The remote host was not responding and had it reset to find in the RAID utility one of the drives had failed one of the RAID 1 arrays. Perhaps

software raid

2012-02-07 Thread Jim Pazarena
Does FreeBSD support any type of software raid? I have an old rack mount server which has 8 bays, but all SATA, and NO raid. Sure would be nice to have a software raid to create a NAS device. -- Jim Pazarena fqu...@paz.bz ___ freebsd-questions

Re: software raid

2012-02-07 Thread Modulok
Does FreeBSD support any type of software raid? I have an old rack mount server which has 8 bays, but all SATA, and NO raid. Sure would be nice to have a software raid to create a NAS device. Yes! An example of setting up a 3 disk raidz might look like this: zpool create myfancyraid

Re: software raid

2012-02-07 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Jim Pazarena wrote: Does FreeBSD support any type of software raid? I have an old rack mount server which has 8 bays, but all SATA, and NO raid. Sure would be nice to have a software raid to create a NAS device. Sure, multiple ways, in fact: http://www.freebsd.org/doc

Need Help with a Raid 1 Time critical issue.

2012-02-07 Thread Morris Allen
To whom it may concern: I have been using the following instructions, I am unable to maintain a Raid1 installation. I have sent this to the Bug group and programming group ( docs/164620 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164620cat=docs : Raid 1 issues) and was told to contact your

Re: Need Help with a Raid 1 Time critical issue.

2012-02-07 Thread Warren Block
A link to the Handbook would be preferable to copying all the information. If this is FreeBSD-9.0, then it's due to a GPT/gmirror conflict and a more particular boot loader. See the release notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#AEN1277

Re: Need Help with a Raid 1 Time critical issue.

2012-02-07 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 08.02.2012 6:17, Morris Allen wrote: I have been using the following instructions, I am unable to maintain a Raid1 installation. I have sent this to the Bug group and programming group ( docs/164620 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164620cat=docs : Raid 1 issues) and was told

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-10 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, the wise Polytropon wrote: Does this image boot successfully? Unfortunately this is also a no go. I think Intel has done something special to their iso's, considering that I'm missing 7MB of data. Regards, Marco -- Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as

journal on raid device

2012-01-07 Thread Peter Mukhachev
Hello everyone! I recently bought a via6421 bulk raid controller and I'm trying to get journalling working. I've partitioned it and set up journal with fdisk, bsdlabel and gjournal: # fdisk -I /dev/ar0 # bsdlabel -w /dev/ar0 # gjournal load # gjournal label /dev/ar0s1a # newfs -O 2 -J /dev

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 17:22:57 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen wrote: After that I tried to create the iso with: root@yokozuna:/data2/tmp# mkisofs -r -J -b [BOOT]/Bootable_HardDisk.img -hard-disk-boot -o raid.iso /data2/tmp which gives an error: mkisofs: No match First I thought the directory

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-07 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, the wise Polytropon wrote: If this is depending on the name [BOOT], there are two ways to deal with special characters in file names, if you need to specify them on the command line: a) use escape sequences: -b \[BOOT\]/Bootable_HardDisk.img b) use quoting:

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:11:30 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, the wise Polytropon wrote: If this is depending on the name [BOOT], there are two ways to deal with special characters in file names, if you need to specify them on the command line: a) use escape

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-07 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, the wise Polytropon wrote: Does this image boot successfully? I don't know yet because I've used all my cd-r's :-(. Within a few days I'm expecting some new cd-rw's and I'll let you know how things went. If you compare your ISO with the original one, file sizes should

creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-06 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Hi, I have an Intel SRCU42X raid controller that currently has firmware version 414D. The bios flash was done by a system update package, from Intel which is an iso file that you can burn to a cd. The upgrade to 414D went fine. But the newest firmware version is 414I and is not available

Re: Freebsd installation problem with 3ware 8506-4LP - storage controller (RAID)

2011-12-25 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Dec 24 23:42:28 2011 Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:38:04 -0500 From: heat...@trans-world.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Freebsd installation problem with 3ware 8506-4LP - storage controller (RAID) Hello, we tried to instal Freebsd

Freebsd installation problem with 3ware 8506-4LP - storage controller (RAID)

2011-12-24 Thread heather
Hello, we tried to instal Freebsd with my 3ware 8506-4LP - storage controller (RAID) and it seems freebsd does not support my raid card could you please tell me how to fox this problem? Here below ismy data center message I got after they tried to instal freebsd on my server, regards, Miss

Mentioning of geom in the handbook's RAID chapter.

2011-04-05 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, I recently searched google for FreeBSD software raid because i wanted to compare the advice google gives me for creating a software raid in linux and freebsd. First hit here was the link to the handbook page (18.4). This page still is only talking about ccd and vinum. I know there is a whole

Re: Mentioning of geom in the handbook's RAID chapter.

2011-04-05 Thread Michael Powell
Leon Meßner wrote: Hi, I recently searched google for FreeBSD software raid because i wanted to compare the advice google gives me for creating a software raid in linux and freebsd. First hit here was the link to the handbook page (18.4). This page still is only talking about ccd and vinum

Re: Booting from firmware RAID

2011-03-18 Thread ameiji
...@horbury.wakefield.sch.ukwrote: This is probably more PC-specific than freebsd-specific question. I have intel firmware raid. OS needs drivers to work with it. FreeBSD sees it as ar0, so it has drivers. But I want my OS to be installed on this drive and boot from it. It is not good idea, but I really want

Booting from firmware RAID

2011-03-16 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Hello, This is probably more PC-specific than freebsd-specific question. I have intel firmware raid. OS needs drivers to work with it. FreeBSD sees it as ar0, so it has drivers. But I want my OS to be installed on this drive and boot from it. It is not good idea, but I really want to do

Re: Booting from firmware RAID

2011-03-16 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
-specific question. I have intel firmware raid. OS needs drivers to work with it. FreeBSD sees it as ar0, so it has drivers. But I want my OS to be installed on this drive and boot from it. It is not good idea, but I really want to do it:) Is it possible? boot0 and boot1 both work with HDD via

Re: Booting from firmware RAID

2011-03-16 Thread b. f.
This is probably more PC-specific than freebsd-specific question. I have intel firmware raid. OS needs drivers to work with it. FreeBSD sees it as ar0, so it has drivers. But I want my OS to be installed on this drive and boot from it. It is not good idea, but I really want to do

Re: Booting from firmware RAID

2011-03-16 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
: This is probably more PC-specific than freebsd-specific question. I have intel firmware raid. OS needs drivers to work with it. FreeBSD sees it as ar0, so it has drivers. But I want my OS to be installed on this drive and boot from it. It is not good idea, but I really want to do

Can RAID driver be loaded from loader.conf?

2011-02-09 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I'm preparing for a migration from single SATA disk attached to onboard SATA controller to 3ware 9750-4i RAID system. In preparation, while the system is still running on single disk, I downloaded the latest tws.ko driver from LSI website and added it to loader.conf: tws_load=YES

Re: Can RAID driver be loaded from loader.conf?

2011-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 10), Toomas Aas said: I'm preparing for a migration from single SATA disk attached to onboard SATA controller to 3ware 9750-4i RAID system. In preparation, while the system is still running on single disk, I downloaded the latest tws.ko driver from LSI website

Issues with ar0(Host Raid) adaptec after upgrade to 8.2

2011-02-01 Thread Colin Legendre
Hey All, I'm having an odd issue, and the only thing I can imagine is that there has been a major change between 8.1 and 8.2. Using the 8.1 kernel everything is dandy. But when I try to use a newly compiled kernel from 8.2(GENERIC) I have no luck. Root will not mount. Here are relevant

Re: Best RAID setup

2011-01-26 Thread Subhro Kar
On 26-Jan-2011, at 6:26 AM, Don O'Neil wrote: I'm getting ready to setup a new FreeBSD 8.1 64 bit server and wanted to know everyone's thoughts on which way to go. software RAID 5 (or 10) or hardware RAID 5 (or 10). If you need to select between software and hardware RAID, then by all means

Re: Best RAID setup

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Don O'Neil li...@lizardhill.com wrote: I'm just looking for the most stable, and production ready RAID that can handle at least 1 TB disks and create volumes in the 3-4 TB range. Any thoughts, feedback, caveats, etc. are welcomed. ZFS. You want it. -- chs

Best RAID setup

2011-01-25 Thread Don O'Neil
I'm getting ready to setup a new FreeBSD 8.1 64 bit server and wanted to know everyone's thoughts on which way to go. software RAID 5 (or 10) or hardware RAID 5 (or 10). I currently have a 3Ware card in one of my servers and it works great, but I haven't really been keeping up on what the latest

Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system

2011-01-08 Thread Troy Beisigl
We are using 7. We see this in 8 as well. We see it on dual and quad core CPUs. I'm currently testing out another motherboard (different model) to see how it performs. Should know something by the end of the coming week. Troy Beisigl On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net

Re: Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system

2011-01-07 Thread Troy Beisigl
the issues with these controllers and FreeBSD. Troy Beisigl Original Message From: Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net To: Troy Beisigl t...@i2bnetworks.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, Jan 4, 2011, 8:20 AM Subject: Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system On 1/4/2011 11:12 AM, Troy

Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system

2011-01-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/7/2011 9:31 PM, Troy Beisigl wrote: Well, it did lock up today. There is no way to do anything on the console. The entire machine is locked hard. The errors on the console show: twa0: ERROR: (0x05: 0x210B): Request timed out!: request = 0xc5633430 twa0: INFO: (0x16: 0x1108):

Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system

2011-01-04 Thread Troy Beisigl
, 13:32 PM Subject: Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system I have a number of these cards and they work very well for us. What version of the firmware are you using on the card ? I have this on a busy db server. But its RELENG8. twa0: 3ware 9000 series Storage Controller port 0x1000-0x10ff mem

Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system

2011-01-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/4/2011 11:12 AM, Troy Beisigl wrote: I will have to check on its next lockup. It happens about every week to week and a half. Are you able to force the issue to recreate the problem ? ---Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system

2011-01-04 Thread Troy Beisigl
So far, no. It just happens. The system is not that loaded. It runs 2 virtually hosted websites with SSL and that is it at the moment. Troy Beisigl On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 1/4/2011 11:12 AM, Troy Beisigl wrote: I will have to check on its next lockup. It happens

PCIe SAS RAID controller for FreeBSD

2011-01-03 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi, Could someone please recommend a 2- or 4-channel SAS PCI-e 4x RAID controller that works with 8-STABLE and is generally available? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

9650SE-2LP raid card locks system

2011-01-03 Thread Troy Beisigl
Hi All, We have been seeing a problem with FreeBSD 7.3 and up where the system will just hang when using a 9650SE-2LP raid card and 2 500G drives mirrored. The system will run for about a week and then the filesystem just hangs, causing the system to hang. We've looked through the logs

Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system

2011-01-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
card ---Mike On 1/3/2011 3:58 PM, Troy Beisigl wrote: Hi All, We have been seeing a problem with FreeBSD 7.3 and up where the system will just hang when using a 9650SE-2LP raid card and 2 500G drives mirrored. The system will run for about a week and then the filesystem just hangs

Re: Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system

2011-01-03 Thread Troy Beisigl
Beisigl Original Message From: Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net To: Troy Beisigl t...@i2bnetworks.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, Jan 3, 2011, 13:32 PM Subject: Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system I have a number of these cards and they work very well for us. What version

Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system

2011-01-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
Original Message From: Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net To: Troy Beisigl t...@i2bnetworks.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, Jan 3, 2011, 13:32 PM Subject: Re: 9650SE-2LP raid card locks system I have a number of these cards and they work very well for us. What version

Splitting hw raid mirror.

2010-11-30 Thread Peter Ankerstål
Chip Name: C1064E Chip Revision: UNUSED RAID Levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E RAID0 Stripes: 64K RAID1E Stripes: 64K RAID0 Drives/Vol: 2-10 RAID1 Drives/Vol: 2 RAID1E Drives/Vol: 3-10 Now I want to split this mirror into standalone drives but I dont know if its possible

Raid 5 questions

2010-10-05 Thread Aron Szabo
Hi! I have a raid problem ... one of the subdisk is missing and i can't mount my partition. FreeBSD testhost 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # gvinum printconfig # Vinum configuration

FreeBSD 8.x and RAID Controllers from Areca and HP

2010-09-28 Thread Maechler Philippe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I hope someone can help me installing FreeBSD 8.x with a RAID Controller from HP or Areca. We have a HP Proliant DL320 G6 Server with a built in HP Smart Array Controller. Since we haven't any luck in using the raid controllers from hp we

Re: FreeBSD 8.x and RAID Controllers from Areca and HP

2010-09-28 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/28/10 10:02, Maechler Philippe wrote: Hello all, I hope someone can help me installing FreeBSD 8.x with a RAID Controller from HP or Areca. and then the machine freezes. This happens on FreeBSD 7.3 - 8.1 (AMD64 and i386). On FreeBSD 7.2 i386 there is no problem with the areca

Raid controller support

2010-08-03 Thread Kenny du Toit
Hi there I would like to install FReebsd with a raid controller card. Can you tell me if these two cards are supported: 1. Intel RAID Controller SRCSASRB 2. Promise EX 8650 Regards Kenny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Raid controller support

2010-08-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:26:23AM +0200, Kenny du Toit wrote: Hi there I would like to install FReebsd with a raid controller card. Can you tell me if these two cards are supported: 1. Intel RAID Controller SRCSASRB This should work with the mfi(4) driver, since it uses a 'LSI Logic

booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode

2010-07-29 Thread Andrew Gould
I purchased an HP Pavilion p6510f. I cannot boot either FreeBSD 8.1 (amd64) or OpenSUSE 11.3 Gnome Live CD unless I change the hard drive mode from RAID to IDE. Unfortunately, that damages my Windows 7 installation. (The computer is currently being restored to factory state

Re: booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode

2010-07-29 Thread Diego Arias
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.comwrote: I purchased an HP Pavilion p6510f. I cannot boot either FreeBSD 8.1 (amd64) or OpenSUSE 11.3 Gnome Live CD unless I change the hard drive mode from RAID to IDE. Unfortunately, that damages my Windows 7

Re: booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode

2010-07-29 Thread Andrew Gould
...@gmail.com wrote: I purchased an HP Pavilion p6510f.  I cannot boot either FreeBSD 8.1 (amd64) or OpenSUSE 11.3 Gnome Live CD unless I change the hard drive mode from RAID to IDE.  Unfortunately, that damages my Windows 7 installation.  (The computer is currently being restored to factory

Areca RAID Failure?

2010-06-11 Thread Kelsey Cummings
This isn't specifically freebsd related but I'm fishing to see if anyone has observered similar behavior from and Areca raid controller before. We're already in touch with their support... Last night a disk failed on a 7 disk raid-6 array on a ARC-1220 with 1TB WD REmumble disks

HP ML110 G6.. Raid 0+1 nfg?

2010-05-28 Thread B. Cook
Not sure if this is supported.. Looks like the card is an HP Smart Array B110i.. But when setup as raid 0+1 in the bios.. FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 says it can not find any disks.. Anyone have this working? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions

dumping a raid member with 'dd' for insurance...

2010-05-11 Thread George Sanders
A 3ware raid5 array I had died. It looks like the data is intact, and there are two good recovery methods: 1) a toolchain from 3ware that, if it doesn't work, will destroy the data. This method is free, and I can do it myself. 2) professional forensic services. Costs a lot. I'm going to

Re: dumping a raid member with 'dd' for insurance...

2010-05-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On May 11, 2010, at 3:35 PM, George Sanders wrote: [ ... ] I am planning on attaching each individual member of the raid5 array to a test FreeBSD system, and run: dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/data/disk/image.file Two questions: - is that a complete 'dd' command, or do I need to specify

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 (LSI2008)

2010-04-04 Thread John
Hi, In the end I had to go with opensuse-11.2. I should have tried it in the second place really, because the iDRAC has Suse enterprise as an installation option, so it was a small leap to think of the free version. Here are the OSes I tried: FreeBSD 8 FreeBSD 9 NetBSD 5.0.2 CentOS Ubuntu 9.10

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 (LSI2008)

2010-04-04 Thread pluknet
On 4 April 2010 19:33, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, In the end I had to go with opensuse-11.2. I should have tried it in the second place really, because the iDRAC has Suse enterprise as an installation option, so it was a small leap to think of the free version. Here are the

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >