Adaptec 2120s Raid 5 (Tim McCullagh)

[Jason Hensler]

Hey Tim,
I have a server with a 2 x 2.4ghz xeons, a gigabyte motherboard, and a 2120s
setup in raid5 (3 drives and 1 hotspare, all seagate) running freebsd 6.2. I
didn't have any problems running the installer or the array being degraded.
The only problem I ran into was when I enabled more than 4GB of memory
support, the array would not sync correctly. I did have some odd behavior
before I updated my drives to the latest firmware, however two drives were
one revision and two were another revision. All in all I am very happy with
my setup.

Cheers,
Jason Hensler
omegadraconis at gmail.com

On Dec 22, 2007 4:00 AM, <freebsd-isp-request at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone installed Freebsd 6.x on a dual xeon system with an adaptec
> 2120s
> raid controller card?
>
> The hardware I am using is dual 2.4 ghz zeon processors
> Corsair 2 GB ram
> tyan s3022 Mainboard with or with out the LSI scsi enabled in the bios
> Adaptec 2120s raid controller
>
> I am trying to install such a system and each time I try and install the
> system it crashes / freezes at one pointor another.  The raid volume shows
> that one of the drives has become unavailable and subsequently shows that
> the raid volume is degraded
>
> Any pointers or help or questions would be appreciated
>
> By the way in order to rule out the harware I successfully loader windoze
> xp
> without any difficulties.   It loaded and performed very well.  Now I want
> to load a real OS.
>
> regards
>
> Tim
>