From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 11:40:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16B216A4D5; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:40:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D05B43D46; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:40:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [194.192.25.143] (laptop.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.143]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j15BdxEV033895; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:40:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <4204B07F.5080605@DeepCore.dk> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:39:43 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Stuyts References: <42028F29.1030801@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.6 cc: 'FreeBSD Current' cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:40:11 -0000 Ben Stuyts wrote: >=20 > On 3 Feb 2005, at 21:52, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote: >=20 >> o ATA RAID can only read metadata not write them. This means tha= t >> arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be crea= ted >> from FreeBSD. This is being worked on for the final release as= is >> RAID5 support for Promise/Highpoing/SiI controllers. >=20 >=20 > Will RAID mirrors built using atacontrol on standard ata controllers=20 > still work? Specifically in my case on 5.3-stable: Not as is, but its easily added, uncomment line 597 in ata-raid.c and it = will be picked up as before... -S=F8ren