From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Jul 27 01:33:45 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CBF16A41F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:33:44 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com)
Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.194])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C86943D45
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:33:44 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com)
Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i4so69444wra
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:33:43 -0700 (PDT)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
	b=XnXAwmVS+YLXbfPkzBnDP/2llygaK7/9jcfM/nnG+zpEnC96MvvH/rarMEhhh7AeIq51czpqHczRml5221rTzUZguRZZhJ6sGUl3VQlSowVn0SF80lrKRvSToOp+d8X7rjF85n5OMU24wazCj3s5sGAFAANyxA7062wl5fPz2+k=
Received: by 10.54.56.5 with SMTP id e5mr139624wra;
	Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:33:43 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.54.124.11 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:33:43 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <ef10de9a05072618331a1e3d73@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:33:43 -0500
From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a05072616464cee0399@mail.gmail.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <ef10de9a05072613007ac60130@mail.gmail.com>
	<ef10de9a050726130739ab0b8@mail.gmail.com>
	<ef10de9a05072613336b21765b@mail.gmail.com>
	<44ek9lnvm8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
	<ef10de9a05072616464cee0399@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
Reply-To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:33:45 -0000

> > > > > Is the new ATA RAID stuff, metadata something, going to be backpo=
rted
> > > > > to 5.x? I'm trying setup a RAID 1 mirror with Intel ICH5R / Adapt=
ec
> > > > > HostRAID but it looks like it's not supported in 5.x
> >
> > Search for messages about that.  SOS@ has discussed it quite a bit, if
> > I recall correctly.
> >
> > > > One more thing... Will FreeBSD 5.4 kernel modules work under 6.x?
> >
>=20
> Yes I just found that out when I tried to load the Highpoint RAID
> driver on FreeBSD 6, the system panics very early in the boot process.
> This means that FreeBSD 6 is completely out of the question for this
> system and I really did not want to run 6.x anyways, I'm migrating a
> production 5.4 server to this new hardware.
>=20
> What is SOS@? and where can I read the discussions about sata RAID
> problems? I seem to have two options for this server:
> (1) Get the ICH5R / Adaptec HostRAID working with 5.4 (as device ar0, ad4=
 + ad6)
> (2) Find a (cheap) SATA RAID 1 card that is supported by the ar / ata
> device in 5.4.
>=20
> The problem with (2) is that I can't find any cheap (less then $60
> USD) SATA RAID 1 cards that will work with device ar. I'm going to
> post this problem to a new thread.
>=20

SOS@, Are you are referring to the ATA-mkIII patch set by S=F8ren
Schmidt? Is this the most current place to find this patch set?:
http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ATA/