Re: Prepping to install

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 05/31/15 14:45, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 05/31/15 14:43, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 02:41:01PM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > > At 1st glance, I see no AHCI options for SATA. I do see OHCI & EHCI for
> > > 'Southbridge chipset configuration' ....
> > It is often called "internal ide controller mode" or similar.
> >
> > Martin
>
> Indeed it was, confusing names, but I seem to be past this hurdle :-)
> .... Thanks !!!!


Well, on to more issues. I proceeded with my install, took the utilities 
option & from the shell, partitioned & disklabel'ed my 6 HDD's as I 
wanted them. All appeared to go well, no error messages. I then 
proceeded to raidctl commands to define the various RAID's I am trying 
to use. In particular, I am using the 1st 16 GiB of the 1st 2 drives 
(wd0 & wd1) as my root drive in a RAID1 configuration. I typed in the 
commands to define the RAID from a configuration file I set up & got 
errors saying something about the # of columns in /dev/wd0a or 1a was 
wrong. Inconveniently, these messages went by on the screen, not into 
the messages file on the install flash-drive. So I powered off, 
unplugged the flash drive & plugged it into this box (FreeBSD 9.3R-p13 
desktop) to post my config files & ask for help, see attached for my 
disklabel of wd0, wd1 & my raid.conf file for the 1st RAID using those 2 
drives (belay my last reply, sorry for that noise). I thought I followed 
the commands OK & had no errors until the raidctl command. TIA for any 
clues & have a nice weekend.





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	William A. Mahaffey III

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# RAID1 on 2 partitions, 32K blocksize ....

# row col spare
START array
1 2 0

START disks
/dev/wd0a
/dev/wd1a

# secPerSU SUsPerParityUbit SUsPerReconUnit RAID-level
START layout
64 1 1 1

START queue
fifo 100

# /dev/rwd0d:
type: ESDI
disk: HGST HTS721010A9
label: disk0
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 1938021
total sectors: 1953525168
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# microseconds
drivedata: 0 

6 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:  33554432      2048       RAID                     # (Cyl.      2*-  33290*)
 c: 1953523120      2048     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      2*- 1938020)
 d: 1953525168         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 - 1938020)
 e:  33554432  33556480       swap                     # (Cyl.  33290*-  66578*)
 f: 1886414256  67110912       RAID                     # (Cyl.  66578*- 1938020)

# /dev/rwd1d:
type: ESDI
disk: HGST HTS721010A9
label: disk1
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 1938021
total sectors: 1953525168
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# microseconds
drivedata: 0 

6 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:  33554432      2048       RAID                     # (Cyl.      2*-  33290*)
 c: 1953523120      2048     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      2*- 1938020)
 d: 1953525168         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 - 1938020)
 e:  33554432  33556480       swap                     # (Cyl.  33290*-  66578*)
 f: 1886414256  67110912       RAID                     # (Cyl.  66578*- 1938020)