RE: No Device Node assigned for HD?

2009-08-23 Thread Daniel Eriksson
You have two options: 1. Use the RR2310 BIOS screen (or hptraidconf from inside FreeBSD) to initialize the drive and create a single drive JBOD array with it. 2. Connect the drive to a header on your motherboard and create a partition table on it, then reconnect it to your RR2310 card. I

RE: No Device Node assigned for HD?

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel Eriksson
Rob wrote: The only difference I've found is that in the RocketRAID BIOS, the 3 500GB drives are recognized with a Legacy Status, whereas the 1TB is recognized as New Status. Not sure what that means or how to change it. Your problem is that the old drives you have hooked up to the

Re: No Device Node assigned for HD?

2009-08-21 Thread Rob
I should clarify my statement a bit. FreeBSD notices the channel starting up when the disk is inserted, but it doesn't recognize that there is a disk there. I usually see something like: da2 at hptrr0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da2: HPT DISK 0_2 4.00 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device once I

No Device Node assigned for HD?

2009-08-20 Thread Rob
I've a 10 disk server that I am using as a file server. I split the disks up unto 3 partitions, with a being part of a gmirror for /, b being part of a gmirror for swap, and d being part of the zfs pool. I've got 6 SATA headers on my MB, and 4 from a HighPoint RocketRAID 2310 controller which