Motherboard RAID problem
Greg Byshenk
freebsd at byshenk.net
Sun Aug 20 17:55:51 UTC 2006
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:38:28PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:02:05AM -0700, Bill Blue wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I'm expecting too much, or this is a real bug.
> > Using FreeBSD 6.1 release, CVSup'd to current. The motherboard is a
> > Supermicro P4SCT0 with a 3.2Ghz P4 and 2 DDR400 1G sticks of RAM. On
> > the MB is a built-in RAID controller (Adaptec chip) for the SATA
> > drives. You set it for discrete SATA or RAID. If RAID is set, on the
> > next boot you have essentially a BIOS configuration for that 'device'
> > consisting of the two SATA devices in either RAID 0 (striped) or RAID
> > 1 (mirrored).
> The ataraid(4) driver supports the Adaptec HostRAID.
> <snip>
> > Boot the OS now and all goes well with the device still showing up on
> > /dev/ad4* but I couldn't tell if the mirroring was really working
> > since the drives have no individual led indications. I then noticed
> > that there was a new ad6* device, and guess what -- it was the second
> > SATA drive and a mirror image of the *original* first drive. Watching
> > it with DF for size changes when copying a large file to my home
> > directory, it didn't change at all.
> > ad6* were the only new devices seen in the OS.
> If FreeBSD supports the device, you should see an ar0 device.
> Do you have the ataraid(4) driver loaded, or built into your kernel?
Alternatively, are you sure you have identified your hardware correctly?
According to Supermicro here
<http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/875/P4SCT.cfm>
the P4SCT has an Intel 6300ESB onboard RAID controller, which according to
this page
<http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=eoyraid&page=2&cookie%5Ftest=1>
is based upon the ICH4, and not Adaptec controller. And, unless I've
missed it, this controller is not supported.
What does dmesg output say about the drives and controller?
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