From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 2 18:19: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3510537B495 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:18:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E1C43EA9 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:18:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h032Inj20072; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:18:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01842; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:18:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA08832; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 19:18:32 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E14F413.50709@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:23:15 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021125 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jakub Miziolek Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 29320 with HostRAID support References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jakub Miziolek wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Scott Long wrote: > > > >>Has anybody used HostRAID support in Adaptec 29320 and FreeBSD? I was > >>trying to install 4.7-RELEASE, but it detected only controller - not > RAID1 > >>mirror. And of course it complains there are no disks in machine. > DOS can > >>see that array. Array is supported by controller BIOS - not any > >>external win drivers/utility. > > > >The RAIDframe project in FreeBSD 5.0 was intended to support Adaptec > >HostRAID. Unfortunately, priorities have changed and that effort has > >stalled indefinitely. You are welcome to contact Adaptec through > >official channels and voice your concern. > > > Just to make Adaptec aware there is such demand from users? Yes. Please. > > I can understand now I can only make software RAID emulation. True, the 'secret sauce' of HostRAID is that the BIOS understands RAID 0, 1, and 10, so you can boot off of it. For those that only need software RAID and those that keep their boot drive separate from their main arrays, this is a cool feature. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message