Netcell SyncRaid SR3000/SR5000 FreeBSD
Jonathan Gilpin
jonathan at fluent.ltd.uk
Tue Jun 14 14:34:54 GMT 2005
The card is brand new. They are suggesting FreeBSD's card support is ancient.
Jonathan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Hamstead" <dean at bong.com.au>
To: "Jonathan Gilpin" <jonathan at fluent.ltd.uk>
Cc: <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: Netcell SyncRaid SR3000/SR5000 FreeBSD
> can you get it running on another system? then just
> dd the drive to an image, copy it someplace then mount
> it and extract the data.
>
> if its really ancient, why are you running it on a
> really brand new piece of hardware? hence my assumption
> you just want data off it.
>
> old scsi raid cards with better support are dirt cheap
> on ebay. mylex's etc got for ~au$30 and do hardware scsi
> (not sure which scsi level).
>
> Dean
>
> Jonathan Gilpin wrote:
>> Hi've aquired a Netcell sync raid card and I've tried to install FreeBSD
>> 5.4 on it.
>> Its the amd64 branch. When the machine boots I get errors like this:
>>
>> Failure - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER timed out
>>
>> The raid array does appear to be detected however when I use the fisk
>> utility durring the installation it complains about the drive geometry.
>>
>> FreeBSD detects: Cyl/Hd/Sect 94415/255/63
>>
>> The utility suggests using 911534/104/16 I agree to this and it then says
>> that this suggest geometry is invalid. I continue and when it comes to
>> make the new file system it gives the time out errors above and then
>> complains
>> it cannot write to the disk.
>>
>> Communication with Netcell produced the following:
>>
>> "I wanted to give you an update about the drive geometry value question.
>> I spoke with our CTO today, and he indicates that drive geometry values
>> are an old style of extremely low level calls to the hard drive that are
>> no longer used by most modern operating systems, who now generally use
>> LBA addressing. If FreeBSD is trying to make drive geometry calls
>> through the generic hard drive driver to our card, we will be unable to
>> translate them appropriately. If this is correct, than in order to work
>> on FreeBSD we would need to write a driver that will be able to
>> translate the calls appropriately, as indicated in this documentation
>> about SCSI controllers
>> http://www.infran.ru/TechInfo/BSD/handbook116.html.
>> "
>>
>> my questions...
>>
>> I really need to get this card working on FreeBSD. Is there anyone on
>> this list who can give me some guidence as to what information Netcell
>> would need to produce this driver? Are there any coders working with
>> FreeBSD
>> that would help produce this driver? Are there any work arounds or quick
>> fixes that can be tried to get things working?
>>
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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