SATA Raid

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Here's some output from 3 of my servers with different ide raid,
judge for yourself:

Server #1:  FreeBSD 6.0, Promise udma raid chip on motherboard:

www# dmesg
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ad4: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120026A 8.01> at ata2-master UDMA100
ad6: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120026A 8.01> at ata3-master UDMA100
Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
ar0: 114440MB <Promise Fasttrak 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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www# atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
    Master:      no device present
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 1:
    Master: acd0 <Pioneer CD-ROM ATAPI Model DR-944 0107/E1.07> ATA/ATAPI
revision 4
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 2:
    Master:  ad4 <ST3120026A/8.01> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 3:
    Master:  ad6 <ST3120026A/8.01> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
    Slave:       no device present

www# atacontrol status ar0
ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY


Server #2  FreeBSD 5.4  Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A (Highpoint Rocket Raid
100) on a pci card

# dmesg
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atapci0: <HighPoint HPT370 UDMA100 controller> port
0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdfe0-0xdfe3,0xdfa8-0xdfaf,0xdfe4-0xdfe7,0xdff0-0xdff7 irq
9 at device 10.0 on pci2
ata2: channel #0 on atapci0
ata3: channel #1 on atapci0
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ad4: 152627MB <ST3160023A/8.01> [310101/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100
ad6: 152627MB <ST3160023A/3.01> [310101/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100
ar0: 152627MB <ATA RAID1 array> [19457/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
 disk0 READY on ad4 at ata2-master
 disk1 READY on ad6 at ata3-master
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# atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
    Master:      no device present
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 1:
    Master: acd0 <CDU5211/YYS7> ATA/ATAPI revision 0
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 2:
    Master:  ad4 <ST3160023A/8.01> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 3:
    Master:  ad6 <ST3160023A/3.01> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
    Slave:       no device present
#
# atacontrol status 0
ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY
#

Server #3 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0:  Intel ICH5R/6300ESB SATA150 RAID chip
on motherboard

#dmesg
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atapci1: <Intel 6300ESB SATA150 controller> port
0xe400-0xe407,0xe000-0xe003,0xd
c00-0xdc07,0xd800-0xd803,0xd400-0xd40f irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0
atapci1: failed to enable memory mapping!
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
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ad4: 286168MB <Seagate ST3300831AS 3.03> at ata2-master SATA150
ad6: 286168MB <Seagate ST3300831AS 3.03> at ata3-master SATA150
ar0: 286168MB <Adaptec HostRAID 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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mail# atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
    Master:      no device present
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 1:
    Master: acd0 <TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552U/US06> ATA/ATAPI revision 0
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 2:
    Master:  ad4 <ST3300831AS/3.03> Serial ATA v1.0
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 3:
    Master:  ad6 <ST3300831AS/3.03> Serial ATA v1.0
    Slave:       no device present
mail#

mail# atacontrol status ar0
ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY
mail#

Ted Mittelstaedt

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Robert Uzzi
>Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 7:35 PM
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: SATA Raid
>
>
>Anyone know of any of the cheaper SATA raid cards that work well under
>FreeBSD. I'd love to go get a 3ware but they are fairly pricey.
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