From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 7 20:14:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1C816A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:14:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outbound0.sv.meer.net (outbound0.sv.meer.net [205.217.152.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A9043D49 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:14:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) j17KDdV5087924; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:14:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from mail.meer.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.meer.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/meer) with ESMTP id j17KCegE036284; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:12:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: (from jrhett@localhost) by mail.meer.net (8.12.1/8.12.10) id j17KCaQu036269; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:12:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:12:36 -0800 From: Joe Rhett To: "Paul A. Hoadley" Message-ID: <20050207201234.GG25963@meer.net> References: <20050207052621.GA82561@grover.logicsquad.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050207052621.GA82561@grover.logicsquad.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Meer.net LLC cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS P5GD2: onboard SATA RAID support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:14:56 -0000 The 3114 works fine as a normal IDE controller. But unless you have the very latest SATA code (not yet in -stable) it can't read the BIOS-made arrays. Delete them, and recreate them using atacontrol instead and you'll find it works fine. But don't pull a drive during a rebuild or you'll get a kernel panic ;-) On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:56:21PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > Does anyone have any success stories with this motherboard, or either > of its onboard SATA RAID chipsets: > > Intel ICH6R > Silicon Image 3114R > > I can get 5.3-STABLE to see both controllers, but it sees the two > disks as ad4 and ad6, not as the RAID1 array I am trying to construct. > > It seems I didn't do quite enough research before buying this > motherboard. Is the consensus that both of these chipsets are junk > anyway? Should I purchase a standalone SATA RAID controller (if so, > which one?), or use one of the onboard controllers and overlay > software RAID1? Any opinions appreciated. > > > -- > Paul. > > w http://logicsquad.net/ > h http://paul.hoadley.name/ -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net