On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 01:00:56PM +0200, Daniel Eriksson wrote.. > Yousef Raffah wrote: > > > The machine is a compaq server with Smart RAID controller > > Is the controller recognised by FreeBSD during startup? > > If it's a SmartArray 5xxx then the 'ciss' driver is the one you want:
Or the ida(4) for the older SmartArrays. Like the DL380 (G1 model) for example has. ida(4) does not hook into the SCSI framework though. > ciss0: <Compaq Smart Array 5300> port ... > [...] > da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <COMPAQ RAID 5 VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > da0: 135.168MB/s transfers > da0: 105008MB (215056800 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 26355C) > > This is a real hardware RAID card, and it presents the array to the > system as a regular SCSI disk (da0 above). Just define your array from > the card's BIOS and make sure you are running a kernel that has 'ciss' > enabled (GENERIC has it by default). > > /Daniel Eriksson > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
