[nycbug-talk] AMD Raid question. . .

[Dan Langille]

On 24 Oct 2005 at 21:20, George R. wrote:

> Dan Langille wrote:
> > On 24 Oct 2005 at 21:10, George R. wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>I just got a new 2u Opteron that I'm putting a BSD on. . .
> >>
> >>I'm doing hardware RAID (leave me alone with any software raid pro's), 
> >>and for some reason, the raid firmware only comes up with Raid 0, 1, and 
> >>10 (and spare).  There are three x 300g SATA drives in this box, so why 
> >>doesn't Raid 5 show up?  Isn't three the minimum for all controllers for 
> >>raid 5?
> > 
> > 
> > What BSD?  What versi
> 
> Nothing to do with the version, since I'm in the Raid firmware. . . but 
> it's obsd 3.7

One might think so...

I had similar problems recently with FreeBSD 6.0-RC1.  I don't know 
what caused that.  My first attempts, changing cables, drives, etc, 
all failed.  A few days later, it just worked.

Random ideas:  Do all three drives appears in the firmware?  Is this 
a master/slave jumper issue?
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