From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 6 21:00:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A893E16A420 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:00:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083F943D4C for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:00:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from circe (circe.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.36]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IUA00HLSAASAU@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:59:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from talos.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.3.22]) by circe (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:59:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by smarthost.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.1/8.13.1/1) with ESMTP id k16KxGYG019604; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:59:16 +0100 Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92]) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1F6DS8-0007Wr-Co; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:59:16 +0100 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 592BA3F429; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:59:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:59:15 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <20060206154953.Q32590@kerplunk.tbe.net> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" Message-id: <20060206205915.GA33350@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <20060206141515.A32590@kerplunk.tbe.net> <20060206200924.GB31849@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <20060206154953.Q32590@kerplunk.tbe.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel ICH5R Raid support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:00:01 -0000 --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 03:50:54PM -0500, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > >The pure SATA functionality and metadata read support for Intel MatrixRA= ID > >(which the ICH5R uses) are supported from 6.0-RELEASE onwards. 6.1-RELE= ASE > >will introduce write support for Intel metadata. See ataraid(4) for > >for details about read/write support. > > > >- Christian >=20 > Cool that's exactly what I was looking for, thanks. I was looking at the= =20 > online man page for ataraid, but I guess I haven't had enough caffeine ye= t=20 > since it's not registering well. >=20 Well, if you have suggestions on how to improve the manpage, let me know. Basically read support lets you use the RAID, but creation, rebuilt etc must be done from the controller BIOS. With write support you can do all this from atacontrol(8). - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD57ijbHYXjKDtmC0RAmOZAJ9M1fe5XoeN+DepWWC8iBn8tYbQCQCfRnEk okdaJ5+mUcf/Qhs9iuuNXI8= =MC2Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh--