HPT374 Driver in -CURRENT

[Jon Noack]

On 2/6/2004 6:38 AM, freebsd at amarand.org wrote:
> When I boot 5.2(.1) from the ISOs, I am able to see -only- the ad4 and ad6
> separate drive components of the RAID1 array, and not the actual RAID1
> array itself (as ar*).  I'm using the standard sysconfig install, and
> going into the Custom Expert mode, I am only given the option to select
> ad4 and ad6 during the partitionable device selection, so I'm assuming (?)  
> that there's something else I need to do in the background or prior to
> loading sysconfig in order to have sysconfig see the RAID1 array itself?  

The only other preparation I made before installation was to check again 
to make sure I enabled RAID mode and created an array in the bios of my 
HPT controller.  Also, you're only using RAID 1 and not RAID 5, correct? 
  Beyond that I don't really have any ideas.  Perhaps if you could post 
the kernel boot messages ("boot -v" would be better) someone else might 
have some insights.

Just a random thought (and most likely completely wrong):
Have you tried loading the installer in Safe Mode?  I only suggest this 
because I have a machine that has a very rocky relationship with apic...

Jon Noack