Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:09:24 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel ICH5R Raid support Message-ID: <20060206200924.GB31849@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <20060206141515.A32590@kerplunk.tbe.net> References: <20060206141515.A32590@kerplunk.tbe.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 02:19:31PM -0500, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > All, > > A quick search of the archives didn't get me the straight answer (although > I admit I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking). > > I'm looking at getting a Supermicro pre-built server, and the motheboard > is a Supermicro P4SCE, with an Intel ICH5R chipset. The board has onboard > SATA controllers, capable of RAID 0/1 support through the BIOS (yes, I > realize this is software raid, I'm OK with that for this use). Just > wondering if the ICH5R sata RAID is supported by 6.0 (or 6.1 if it's > released by the time I get this all done). I'd rather not have to go > through the hoops using ataraid, I'd rather just set it up in the BIOS if > there's support for it natively. > > I'll search some more, but if someone has an answer, it'd be appreciated. > The pure SATA functionality and metadata read support for Intel MatrixRAID (which the ICH5R uses) are supported from 6.0-RELEASE onwards. 6.1-RELEASE will introduce write support for Intel metadata. See ataraid(4) for for details about read/write support. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD56z0bHYXjKDtmC0RAr1FAKC9k9SfpEvTzZ0RlogJlI+fa3wodQCbBMp8 GdNCNtXThRA55Bz/5J7HDUo= =/KVt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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