Re: IDE Raid Support

[Marc Champion <m.champion@hyperwerk.ch>]

Try switching off the raid functionality in the bios and
get it work as a simple ata card. Then use the raidframe
driver to create a software raid.

Marc

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 06:08, gavan.wood@optusnet.com.au wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> newbie here
> 
> I am trying  to build and configure a pure FTP server using openbsd 3.4 using IBM 
> eServer, xSeries 305 and run hardware disk mirroring. The raid controller supplied 
> is a LSI Logic ATA 133.  My problem is the driver disk supplied with does not have 
> OpenBSD drivers nor does the LSI website. I noticed that LSI is on the donators 
> list yet have not come across one LSI driver written for openbsd.
> 
> I created floppy boot disk using the "B" image which has Raid support yet it does 
> not detect the controller which is fine as its not in hardware list for support.  After 
> doing some research, I have found no mention of this card ever being installed on a 
> BSD box before.  I am wondering if anyone can help in pointing me in the right 
> direction of where i can look for this driver or if anyone has one?  
> 
> Secondly, if I was to get my hands on the driver, how would I load it before the 
> install of the OS.  I know in Linux you can type "linux dd" duing the begining of the 
> install to load addtional drivers, is the a way to do this with openbsd?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Gavan Wood
> System Administrator