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Subject: Re: Sil680 RAID Support while installing 5.1-Release
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Gabriel,

I experienced the same problem using 5.1 release with an Adaptec SATA Raid 
card that uses the SATA Sil3112A chip.

With 5.1-CURRENT I can get FreeBSD to install, but the server locks-up 
because the disk subsystem gets a DMA write error that it either never 
recovers from or falls into the debugger (most times it does NOT go to the 
debugger.)

There are a few of us using SATA Sil3112A chips and experiencing these 
problems.

         -Derek

At 06:13 PM 9/27/2003 +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
>Hi Travis Troyer,
>you wrote.
>
>TT> I just purchased a Sil680 IDE RAID controller, and have setup
>TT> a striped RAID array.  When I boot from the 5.1 installation
>TT> CD-ROM, FreeBSD does not recognize them as one disk.  I
>TT> checked the hardware notes, and "Sil680 UDMA6" is listed.
>TT> Seeing Sil680 listed, I assumed that the RAID capabilities
>TT> would also be supported.  I read something posted awhile back
>TT> referring to the Sil680 controller, saying it was supported,
>TT> but dangerous unless using 5.1-Current.  Does anybody know
>TT> anything about the current status of this?  Is there anyway to
>TT> get the FreeBSD installation to recognize my RAID array, or
>TT> should I just buy another controller?
>
>I was wondering about the online Sil 3112 SATA RAID controller on my
>Gigabyte 7VAXP board. The 5.1 RELEASE boot CD crashes saying it
>couldn't write to root (which is weird, considering it usually should
>be able to write to memfs??).
>
>
>
>
>Regards,
>Gabriel
>
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