From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 23:22:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F1016A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:22:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4709743D46 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from DeepCore.dk (csc-gw1.novi.dk [130.225.63.24]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2B7M2Fd036454; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:22:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <4050139A.40003@DeepCore.dk> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:22:02 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040126 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Burhan Nazir References: <404FACF7.3020500@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <404FACF7.3020500@btinternet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.4 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 05:24:08 -0800 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:22:22 -0000 Burhan Nazir wrote: > Hi Guys > > Does FreeBSD 5.2.1 support the Sil 3112 SATA Raid controller? I > currently have two 120Gb SATA drives connected to the controller and > configured as stripped raid-0. However, the freebsd installer only > recognises both drives individually and not as a logical single drive. > It works fine under windows. Yes the sii3112 is supported but not your specific BIOS software RAID type. To make it work the metadata format on the disks need to be figured out and routines to convert it into the generic format ataraid uses written. Anyhow the sii3112 is by far the most crappy SATA controller on the market, so it might be difficult to get anyone interested in wasting (more) time on this... -- -Søren