Re: sil 0680 RAID 1

From: Chris Howells (howells_at_kde.org)
Date: 11/25/03

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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:32:59 +0000

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    Hi,

    On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:49, Bognár Zsolt wrote:
    > I purchased a Sil680 IDE RAID controller, and have setup a mirrored RAID
    > array.
    > My problem is, FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9 GENERIC does not recognize them as one
    > disk.
    > I checked the hardware notes, and "Sil680 UDMA6" is listed.

    That could mean that it works as a standard IDE controller, not necessarily as
    a RAID controller.

    > I have one ad4 and one ad6 disk. (I can see same partition and data on both
    > of them)
    > Finally, the mirroring works fine but if the ad4 disk goes wrong, the BSD
    > can't mount the root disk from ad6.(boot is OK)
    >
    > Is there anyway to get the FreeBSD to recognize my RAID array?

    Not too much help I'm afraid, but I wasn't confident in the abilities of such
    a cheap controller (mine cost me GBP Ł20, about USD $30) to work well,
    particularly with FreeBSD. I just set mine into "standard IDE contoller" mode
    (there was a jumper on the board to control this), and have set up a mirrored
    RAID 1 with vinum.

    So far it's running fine like this.

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    Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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