From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 26 14:04:42 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF02B16A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:04:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD1213C4CB for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:04:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6QE4PL1083531; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:04:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070726090116.0247cf20@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:03:46 -0500 To: Christopher Key , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <46A8710F.9010404@cam.ac.uk> References: <46A8710F.9010404@cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Adaptec AAR-1220SA / AAR-1430SA X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:04:42 -0000 At 05:01 AM 7/26/2007, Christopher Key wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to establish whether I can expect the Adaptec AAR-1220SA or >AAR-1430SA SATA cards to work with 6.2. They're not on the list of >supported hardware, which does include a lot of the other Adaptec >cards. However, the Adaptec cards that are listed all seem to be hardware >RAID cards, whereas the 1220SA and 1430SA use something called 'HostRAID', >which I think just means software raid. Does this just mean that I'll be >unable to use the RAID functionality on the cards, not really a concern, >or are they unlikely to work at all? > >Many thanks, > >Chris Key I have tried the 1200 series and they simply don't work for RAID or non-RAID use. They have Sil chips which cause intermittent problems. These problems are also present in other adapters that use some of the Sil chips. Unfortunately the Sil chips are "hit and miss" as they have different versions (masks) of the same chips and some will work while most do not. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.