5.3b7 and ata raid1 - how?

[Emanuel Strobl]

Am Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2004 13:04 schrieb Rob:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to set up a new machine, from 5.3b7 ISOs.  This machine has a
> SiL 0680 based IDE RAID1 card in it, on which I have two 80Gb Maxtor drives
> - ad4 and ad6.
>
> I have set up the mirroring in the IDE card's BIOS, however FreeBSD does
> not recognise the raid, instead presenting me with an installation target
> of ad4 or ad6.
>
> This was the same under 4.10, however I just installed a minimum system on
> ad4, ran `atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6` and re-ran installation,
> whereupon it spotted ar0 and offered me this as an installation
> target.  Under 5.3b7 this is not happening:  Although `atacontrol status
> ar0` reports READY immediately after creating the raid, after doing this
> and just rebooting into the minimum system again the same command shows
> Device not configured.
>
> Is ata RAID1 therefore broken on 5.3b7 ??  This is straight off the ISOs

Yes, ataraid for many sil0680 (and 649) cards is broken.
See my latest PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72897

I also reported it back in July:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1876414+0+archive/2004/freebsd-current/20040704.freebsd-current
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=199650+0+archive/2004/freebsd-current/20040711.freebsd-current

Since nobody seemed to care about I started another thread:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=370257+0+archive/2004/freebsd-current/20040718.freebsd-current

For 5-stable it's too late, but anyway, the ata performance doesn't allow me 
to use it for production environment. See the FreeBSD '5.3b7and poor ata 
performance' thread here (e. g. 
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1554285+0+current/freebsd-current)

-Harry

> downloaded a few days ago, so no custom options have been set, and the
> minimum system is just running GENERIC.
>
> (5.2.1 failed to work at all, causing a kernel panic immediately after
> detecting the 0680 when booting from the CD or an installed system.)
>
> Hardware is a Celeron 1GHz, M758LMRE motherboard (PC Chips?), AMI BIOS,
> plenty of RAM. There are TWO SiL 0680 cards present, but currently only the
> first has any drives attached. (This is to be a new fileserver, with
> multiple drives, although only the one RAID1 array is planned, for system
> and most important files.)
>
> Any assistance would be most appreciated.
>
> Rob O'Donnell.
>
>
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