From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 10:50:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C9E16A417 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:50:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A2913C45E for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:50:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from [10.29.62.13] (helo=[10.29.62.13]) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1IUgmZ-0004AO-U7; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:46:25 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-226-660800478" Message-Id: <5C400D5C-7E83-41D2-A66F-C3903D6E1AB1@ish.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Aristedes Maniatis Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:49:57 +1000 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.2 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-Spam-Report: -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP Subject: AIC9410 support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:50:07 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-226-660800478 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I've been able to locate some old posts about the Adaptec AIC9410 chipset. I've acquired one of these in a new server: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/7045/SYS-7045B-3.cfm? PID=TWR We are looking to set up 2 SATA drives in a mirrored pair and started with trying to get it to work under FreeBSD 6. When I couldn't get it to detect the driver I then tried the most recent August CURRENT snapshot. It does not appear to recognise the drives either as a RAID set or separately when booting from the FreeBSD current CD. The only historical references I could find were: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg79964.html where a year ago Scott Long suggests that it might work in HostRAID mode but not in standalone mode. I've Googled extensively and couldn't find a description of how HostRAID mode is different to full 'regular' RAID. It appears to be some sort of RAID where the system CPU does more of the work, but I'm not sure. My questions: * is the AIC9410 supported in any version of FreeBSD, whether I am using the Adaptec HostRAID or just mounting the drives individually? * does raidutil (part of ports/systutils/asr-utils) usable with this chipset? Cheers Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A --Apple-Mail-226-660800478 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkblIVYACgkQ72p9Lj5JECrR6ACfX7hitvxNXY90mhQXaH3cZQ8U pTUAn305Ym0qk5yHY8ZaCCkl5Cm8FSVu =7DRL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-226-660800478--