I have an older Promise FastTrak S150TX2 Plus. I recently tried to upgrade a system from FreeBSD 8.4 to FreeBSD 9.2 which completely blew up the system. It wouldn't boot, leaving me at the boot prompt. Any attempt to boot of the RAID volume resulted in an error 19. My searches of this forum and the Internet seem to indicate this is an unknown error that doesn't have a fix.
I then attempted to rebuild the server from scratch and it appears that FreeBSD 9.2 install CD does not function properly with the RAID card. Upon booting, FreeBSD seems to do some sort of scan/read of the local harddrives that upon doing so, immediately causes the controller to kick whichever member is accessed first (usually ada0) out of the RAID.
Furthermore I get all sorts of errors on both sub-members of the RAID mirror when I attempt to set up partitions on the raid volume (raid/r0) it spews all sorts of errors about both drives:
On the debugging screen I see that gpart complains that it could not set up partcode on the raid/r0p1 partition due to input/output errors.
I've confirmed in a second computer that all drives are healthy/operational.
I then attempted to rebuild the server from scratch and it appears that FreeBSD 9.2 install CD does not function properly with the RAID card. Upon booting, FreeBSD seems to do some sort of scan/read of the local harddrives that upon doing so, immediately causes the controller to kick whichever member is accessed first (usually ada0) out of the RAID.
Furthermore I get all sorts of errors on both sub-members of the RAID mirror when I attempt to set up partitions on the raid volume (raid/r0) it spews all sorts of errors about both drives:
Code:
GEOM_RAID: Read error (5), 129 read errors total ada0[READ(offset=20992), length=512)]
On the debugging screen I see that gpart complains that it could not set up partcode on the raid/r0p1 partition due to input/output errors.
I've confirmed in a second computer that all drives are healthy/operational.