Re: 5.3b7 and ata raid1 - how?

Hi,

Your problem is that the controller is an entry level RAID controller. 
What you get with that controller is software RAID in certain 
enviroments(Windows)
More info here: http://www.siliconimage.com/products/sii0680.asp
Someone had already raised this question, you can check the solution(one 
possible) here: 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-November/005141.html

Hope that helped :)

João Barros.

Rob wrote:

> 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 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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