Re: Prepping to install

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

On 06/08/15 10:28, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 05/31/15 17:00, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well, I am back from an out-of-town trip & back to this rather 
> disjointed build. I booted the machine using the 6.1.5 USB install 
> image, as detailed previously & told it to run /bin/sh. I re-tried my 
> 1st raidctl commands & it said that raid was already defined. I did a 
> raidctl -s on that raid device & it said all was OK except for parity 
> dirty, which I had not initialized yet, so that was OK as well. I 
> proceeded to setup the rest of the basic raid devices & all said there 
> were fatal errors, but they were ignored. I then did a 'raidctl -i 
> <dev>; raidctl -S <dev>' on the 1st 3 devices, all RAID1's of 2 X 16 
> GiB partitions, & the commands completed fairly quickly, a few minutes 
> total. The 4th device is a RAID5 of 5 almost 1 TiB partitions, 4 
> active, 1 spare. I kicked off the 'raidctl -i <dev>; raidctl -S 
> <dev>', & it says ETA: 5:15:nn (!!!!!), i.e. over 5 hours. Is that a 
> normal ETA for that task ? I am letting it go for now, so I can't 
> retrieve anything from the ongoing process, but that sounded a bit 
> long to me. Any clues appreciated. TIA & have a good one.

More tacky self-replying, so sorry .... The above raidctl commands on 
the RAID5 device completed successfully, so off to the next order of 
business, assembling my new RAID1 raid1 & raid2 devices into a RAID10 
device to mount as /usr; I issued the command 'raidctl -C raid10.txt 
raid4' & it failed as follows:

dk_lookup on device: /dev/raid1 failed!
RAIDFRAME: rf_ConfigureDisks failed with 2
raidctl: ioctl (RAIDFRAME CONFIGURE) failed: no such file or device!

with the 1st 2 lines in green & the last one in white. I did a 'raidctl 
-s raid1 > LIST.raid1.txt', which I attach, as well as my raid10.txt 
configuration file. I am assuming pilot error here, but I have been 
pretty careful to make sure my commands were at least consistent w/ the 
online man pages, etc. Any help appreciated. TIA & have a nice evening.


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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Components:
           /dev/wd2a: optimal
           /dev/wd3a: optimal
No spares.
Component label for /dev/wd2a:
   Row: 0, Column: 0, Num Rows: 1, Num Columns: 2
   Version: 2, Serial Number: 11, Mod Counter: 13
   Clean: No, Status: 0
   sectPerSU: 64, SUsPerPU: 1, SUsPerRU: 1
   Queue size: 100, blocksize: 512, numBlocks: 33554368
   RAID Level: 1
   Autoconfig: Yes
   Root partition: No
   Last configured as: raid1
Component label for /dev/wd3a:
   Row: 0, Column: 1, Num Rows: 1, Num Columns: 2
   Version: 2, Serial Number: 11, Mod Counter: 13
   Clean: No, Status: 0
   sectPerSU: 64, SUsPerPU: 1, SUsPerRU: 1
   Queue size: 100, blocksize: 512, numBlocks: 33554368
   RAID Level: 1
   Autoconfig: Yes
   Root partition: No
   Last configured as: raid1
Parity status: clean
Reconstruction is 100% complete.
Parity Re-write is 100% complete.
Copyback is 100% complete.

# RAID10 on 2 partitions, 32K blocksize ....

# row col spare
START array
1 2 0

START disks
/dev/raid1
/dev/raid2

# secPerSU SUsPerParityUbit SUsPerReconUnit RAID-level
START layout
128 1 1 0

START queue
fifo 100