From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 6 20:12:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org 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 59CB016A420 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:12:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F8343D45 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:12:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from circe (circe.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.36]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IUA00HC77ZPHN@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:09:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from talos.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.3.22]) by circe (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:09:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by smarthost.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.1/8.13.1/1) with ESMTP id k16K9OmL017207; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:09:24 +0100 Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92]) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1F6Cfs-0005Hf-Q5; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:09:24 +0100 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7311D3F42A; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:09:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:09:24 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <20060206141515.A32590@kerplunk.tbe.net> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" Message-id: <20060206200924.GB31849@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary="kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <20060206141515.A32590@kerplunk.tbe.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel ICH5R Raid support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:12:10 -0000 --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 02:19:31PM -0500, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > All, >=20 > A quick search of the archives didn't get me the straight answer (althoug= h=20 > I admit I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking). >=20 > I'm looking at getting a Supermicro pre-built server, and the motheboard= =20 > is a Supermicro P4SCE, with an Intel ICH5R chipset. The board has onboar= d=20 > SATA controllers, capable of RAID 0/1 support through the BIOS (yes, I=20 > realize this is software raid, I'm OK with that for this use). Just=20 > wondering if the ICH5R sata RAID is supported by 6.0 (or 6.1 if it's=20 > released by the time I get this all done). I'd rather not have to go=20 > through the hoops using ataraid, I'd rather just set it up in the BIOS if= =20 > there's support for it natively. >=20 > I'll search some more, but if someone has an answer, it'd be appreciated. >=20 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 --=20 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 --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD56z0bHYXjKDtmC0RAr1FAKC9k9SfpEvTzZ0RlogJlI+fa3wodQCbBMp8 GdNCNtXThRA55Bz/5J7HDUo= =/KVt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R--