Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems

[Lanny Baron]

Hi Bob,
So let me get this right. You installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386 and it 
does not see ar0 and when you get to disk partion in the install menu it 
will only report ad4, ad6 ... etc?
Regards,
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Lanny Baron
Freedom Technologies Corporation
Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900
High Performance Servers and RAID Storage Systems

http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM
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Bob Bishop wrote:
> At 18:55 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote:
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> That is very odd. In our testing when enabling the onboard software 
>> RAID it would show up as AD4 and AD6 as you show below. And this was 
>> with 6.2-RELEASE/AMD64. Are you running i386? Please let me know.
> 
> That box is running i386 but I don't see why it would make a difference. 
> I did have to do the usual 'atacontrol create' from fixit before 
> installing to persuade sysinstall to see ar0.
> 
> It really is all working, we had a drive fail and I did the hot swap and 
> 'atacontrol rebuild' thing.
> 
>> Thanks Bob.
>> Regards,
>> ___________________________________________________
>> Lanny Baron
>> Freedom Technologies Corporation
>> Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900
>> High Performance Servers and RAID Storage Systems
>>
>> http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM
>> ___________________________________________________
>>
>>
>> Bob Bishop wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> At 15:08 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote:
>>>> [...]The onboard RAID is only supported for Red Hat and Windows and 
>>>> perhaps a couple of other name brand Linux distros. [etc]
>>> Untrue. See the following dmesg highlights:
>>> ...
>>> FreeBSD 6.1-20060910-SNAP #0: Tue Oct 17 18:08:31 BST 2006
>>> ...
>>> cpi0: <INTEL S5000PAL> on motherboard
>>> ...
>>> atapci1: <Intel 63XXESB2 SATA300 controller> port 
>>> 0x40d8-0x40df,0x40f4-0x40f7,0x40d0-0x40d7,0x40f0-0x40f3,0x4020-0x403 
>>> f mem 0xb8c00000-0xb8c003ff irq 20 at device 31.2 on pci0
>>> ...
>>> ad4: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata2-master SATA300
>>> ad6: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata3-master SATA300
>>> ar0: 238418MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID1> status: READY
>>> ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad4 at ata2-master
>>> ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master
>>> ------------------------------
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