Promise SuperTrak EX12350 don't get detected under FreeBSD 6.2

[Göran Nilsson]

On the controller there it says that it supports freebsd 6.1. And yes there
is documentation on how to install freebsd 6.1 on the raid.
But for now i have installed freebsd on a RAID1 system, and i have problem
getting the card detcted, i run a 5TB RAID 6 on this card.
Didn't thought that it could be that much differens between version 6.1 and
6.2. Gonna try to reinstall. After the reinstall i got the card up and
running. I see it get detected and it all looks ok. I go in and do a fdisk
on the drive and label/mount it. I do all this in sysinstall.
I can see that the drive is 4648GB so it all looks ok with the RAID 6 Drive.
When i later quit sysinstall and check the mounts i see that the drive space
is 532GB and available space is 500GB. This looks totally wrong. Is there
any limitations that im not aware of?

/Goran

On Dec 13, 2007 1:10 AM, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:

>  On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:35:09PM +0100, Göran Nilsson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a problem getting my EX12350 Radicontroller to work under FreeBSD
> 6.2.
> > When i start the computer or rund a dmesg i can see that
> > "mass storage raid ..no driver attached"
> > For what i can see this card should be supported under FreeBSD 6.1, but
> > could it be soo that the support is missing in 6.2? Any tips?
> > Should i try to go for the 6.3 RC1. I really need this card up and
> running,
> > i run it as a RAID 6. I have tried this with just the generic kernel,
> > So the most should be in there?
> >
> > Ideas, is most appriciating, coz im kinda stuck.
> >
>
>
> What makes you think this card is supported by FreeBSD 6.1?
>
> As far as I can tell there is no driver for that card included with any
> FreeBSD release.  If it was supported the driver would have been included
> in
> GENERIC kernel, and if was supported in 6.1 it would have been in 6.2also.
>
>
> It is quite possible however that Promise provides their own FreeBSD
> driver
> for that card.  If that is the case you should ask Promise which
> version(s)
> of FreeBSD the driver supports and how to install it - or read their
> documentation where such information can likely be found.
>
>
>
>
> --
> <Insert your favourite quote here.>
> Erik Trulsson
> ertr1013 at student.uu.se
>