On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 08:38:47PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > Hi. > > On 27.11.2011 01:41, Adam Stylinski wrote: > > I just ran freebsd-update to get up to 9.0-RC2 and discovered that ataraid > > does not work. I realize I'm an edge case and my scenario is not ideal (I > > use an ITE controller and performance is actually impressively slow), but I > > cannot boot 9.0 from my stripe, even after manually loading ataraid from > > the loader prompt (after running an unload command). I mention it mostly > > because other people using the fakeraid setup by their motherboards for > > whatever reason (perhaps to share a partition table with windows on the > > same mirror or stripe) may have a similar problem. It seems like the ar0 > > device disappeared for me completely (even though it finds ada0 and ada1). > > I'm using the following device: > > > > atapci0@pci0:2:11:0: class=0x010400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x82121283 > > rev=0x13 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Integrated Technology Express (ITE) Inc' > > device = 'ATA 133 IDE RAID Controller (IT8212F)' > > class = mass storage > > subclass = RAID > > rl0@pci0:2:13:0: class=0x020000 card=0x80ea104d chip=0x813910ec > > rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 > > > > At first I figured because it may be loading AHCI (as per the device naming > > schemes ada0 and ada1). I haven't looked too much into it (these devices > > are actually PATA not SATA, so AHCI doesn't even exist for these), but > > maybe there's an ATA/AHCI driver that's built into the default kernelthat > > is interfering with ataraid.ko? Maybe this interferes with my stupidly > > slow and unpopular configuration. > > > > Thanks for any help, I'll also have a gander at the new DEFAULTS for the > > generic kernel in the 9.0 source tree. > > FreeBSD 9.x uses new CAM-bases ATA subsystem. ataraid driver depends on > old ATA infrastructure and does not work with new. Instead, new GEOM > RAID class was implemented. Unluckily, as soon as ITE produced only PATA > controllers, there is no support for their metadata format in geom_raid > module now. So, at the moment, the only option to access that RAID > volume is to build custom kernel with old ATA and use ataraid. > Respective kernel options listed in /usr/src/UPDATING item from 20110424. > > -- > Alexander Motin >
Hmm, I may just as well dump the UFS and restore it to a totally geom based solution. If anything it will likely help rather than hurt my performance. -- Adam Stylinski PGP Key: http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~adam/publickey.pub Blog: http://technicallyliving.blogspot.com
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