FreeBSD 9.0 and Intel MatrixRAID RAID5

Matthias Gamsjager mgamsjager at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 12:26:10 UTC 2012


Not sure if geom_raid is implemented with cam. I remember a post a while
back about this issue to happen with defaulting cam in 9. Did not follow it
so not sure if something has been done about it.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:

> Hello.
> On my desktop I use Intel MatrixRAID RAID5 soft raid controller. RAID5 is
> configured over 3 disks. FreeBSD 8.2 sees this as:
>
> ar0: 953874MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID5 (stripe 64 KB)> status: READY
> ar0: disk0 READY using ad4 at ata2-master
> ar0: disk1 READY using ad6 at ata3-master
> ar0: disk2 READY using ad12 at ata6-master
>
> Root filesystem is on /dev/ar0s1.
> Today I've tried to upgrade to 9.0.
> It doesn't see this disk array. Here is dmesg. When I load geom_raid, it
> finds something, but doesn't want to work with RAID:
>
> GEOM_RAID: Intel-e922b201: Array Intel-e922b201 created.
> GEOM_RAID: Intel-e922b201: No transformation module found for Volume0.
> GEOM_RAID: Intel-e922b201: Volume Volume0 state changed from STARTING to
> UNSUPPORTED.
> GEOM_RAID: Intel-e922b201: Disk ada2 state changed from NONE to ACTIVE.
> GEOM_RAID: Intel-e922b201: Subdisk Volume0:2-ada2 state changed from NONE
> to ACTIVE.
> GEOM_RAID: Intel-e922b201: Disk ada1 state changed from NONE to ACTIVE.
> GEOM_RAID: Intel-e922b201: Subdisk Volume0:1-ada1 state changed from NONE
> to ACTIVE.
> GEOM_RAID: Intel-e922b201: Disk ada0 state changed from NONE to ACTIVE.
> GEOM_RAID: Intel-e922b201: Subdisk Volume0:0-ada0 state changed from NONE
> to ACTIVE.
> GEOM_RAID: Intel-e922b201: Array started.
>
> No new devices appear in /dev.
> How could I solve this issue?
> --
>
>


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