Promise TX2300 array not detected.

[Lukas Razik]

Hello Matthew!

You can read my experience with the TX4310 controller (same as TX2300 
but with 4 ports and RAID5 support - TX4300 doesn't have RAID5):

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003505.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003506.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003507.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-May/003508.html

I hope you will get it work with the 'atacontrol' command:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrol&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html

The problem for me with atacontrol was that after booting Windows my 
/dev/arX device always has been destroyed.

My solution was:
Buying a 3ware 8006-2LP 2-port SATA HARDWARE RAID Controller which has 
better performance than the TX4310 although it's SATA and not SATA-II 
and also very good Linux support.

Regards and Good Luck!
Lukas



Matthew Hagerty wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a Promise TX2300 (latest BIOS 2.5.0.3122) that I'm trying to use 
> with 6.2R.  I set up a two disk mirror using the card's BIOS utility, 
> but when I go to install FBSD my disk selection is only ad4 and ad6, the 
> array is not being recognized (I believe I should have an ar0 in the 
> list as well).
> 
> I can install on a single disk just fine, I just can't get FBSD to see 
> the array.  Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> 
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