Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems

[Bob Bishop]

At 18:55 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote:
>Hi Bob,
>
>That is very odd. In our testing when enabling the onboard software 
>RAID it would show up as AD4 and AD6 as you show below. And this was 
>with 6.2-RELEASE/AMD64. Are you running i386? Please let me know.

That box is running i386 but I don't see why it would make a 
difference. I did have to do the usual 'atacontrol create' from fixit 
before installing to persuade sysinstall to see ar0.

It really is all working, we had a drive fail and I did the hot swap 
and 'atacontrol rebuild' thing.

>Thanks Bob.
>Regards,
>___________________________________________________
>Lanny Baron
>Freedom Technologies Corporation
>Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900
>High Performance Servers and RAID Storage Systems
>
>http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM
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>
>
>Bob Bishop wrote:
>>Hi,
>>At 15:08 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote:
>>>[...]The onboard RAID is only supported for Red Hat and Windows 
>>>and perhaps a couple of other name brand Linux distros. [etc]
>>Untrue. See the following dmesg highlights:
>>...
>>FreeBSD 6.1-20060910-SNAP #0: Tue Oct 17 18:08:31 BST 2006
>>...
>>cpi0: <INTEL S5000PAL> on motherboard
>>...
>>atapci1: <Intel 63XXESB2 SATA300 controller> port 
>>0x40d8-0x40df,0x40f4-0x40f7,0x40d0-0x40d7,0x40f0-0x40f3,0x4020-0x403 
>>f mem 0xb8c00000-0xb8c003ff irq 20 at device 31.2 on pci0
>>...
>>ad4: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata2-master SATA300
>>ad6: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata3-master SATA300
>>ar0: 238418MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID1> status: READY
>>ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad4 at ata2-master
>>ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master
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