Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:03:30 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec ICH5R-S Serial ATA RAID Message-ID: <20040922220330.GA48125@parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <1521.66.11.183.178.1095880306.squirrel@66.11.183.178> References: <200409212256.i8LMu1b7032629@sage.ts.co.nz> <41517193.60604@nulis.lt> <1521.66.11.183.178.1095880306.squirrel@66.11.183.178>
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As I mentioned, Soren may not have an ICH5R to test with. If he doesn't, I can send him a motherboard (no CPU or RAM though) which can help with this department. I think it's "too soon" to get this into RELENG_5, to be honest, unless things happen over the next 7-8 days. -CURRENT is an entirely different story. >From what I understand, there's been a lot of work recently on getting metadata support for different onboard RAID controllers. Soren could comment on this... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. | On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:11:46PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Saulius Menkevicius said: > > > Tim price wrote: > > > >>Hi, I'm looking for information regarding current support for the onboard > >>SATA raid device on the Intel SR1325TP1-E motherboard, listed as Adaptec > >>ICH5R-S Serial ATA RAID. > >> > >> > >> > >>We've basically got a server with two 200GB SATA drives configured in a > >>mirrored array in the above controller. I'm looking for a way of > >> installing > >>and running freebsd v4.10 - v5.2.1 in that configuration. > >> > >> > > Doug Abrisko has patches for 4.10 which (among other things) adds > > support for the ICH5-R SATA RAID metadata. Look for > > http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_5.patch. > > > > A patch for RELENG_5 is at > > http://www.nulis.lt/bob/download/intel-raid-patch-releng5. This one has > > been ported from Doug's patch (with minor changes). Personally I run > > SATA 2x120GB disk stripe (RAID0) with ICH5-R thus can't tell how it > > would work in mirror mode. > > Why hasnt this stuff been merged to FreeBD yet? I think a lot of people > are anxious to see support for this, as most current Intel based boards > utilize this, and FreeBSD still has not support for it. The chipset has > been out for a long time now. FreeBSD seems to be really lagging behind in > hardware support lately. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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