From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 11 13:59:18 2005 Return-Path: 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 275F616A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:59:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98EEC43D58 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:59:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3BE2iq1031078; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:02:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <425A81F7.7040109@samsco.org> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:56:07 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aristedes Maniatis References: <8e131b2855562f4bf32410218f53ee1c@ish.com.au> In-Reply-To: <8e131b2855562f4bf32410218f53ee1c@ish.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aac support for Adaptec 2020SA ZCR X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:59:18 -0000 Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > We have a motherboard (Supermicro X6DHT-G) with an Adaptec 2020SA SATA > RAID controller. We have been unable to get any drives recognised by the > FreeBSD 5.3 release installation CD, and we've been unable to find much > discussion about the status of the AAC device and support for this > chipset. Several other Adaptec SATA RAID controllers seem to be > supported: 2410SA, 2810SA, 21610SA. The logical drive configured in the > RAID controller is detected successfully in a Gentoo Linux 2004.3 > environment. > > Has anyone had success with this controller? Any alternative you would > recommend or will support be available in 5.4? I believe from the source > code that the driver is maintained by Scott Long and that recent changes > have been taking place. > > > Thanks for any assistance. > > Ari Maniatis > > The 2020 seems to be in a pre-release phase just for SuperMicro. It's not mentioned at all on the Adaptec website. I've been in contact with Adaptec engineers who are preparing updates for the FreeBSD driver for it, but it's looking unlikely that they will be done in time for the 5.4 release. Scott