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Subject: Re: ICH6R RAID
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"Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@mail.bristolsystems.com> writes:
> Now man ata(4) indicates that only up to ICH5 is supported in 5.4 while
> up to ICH6 is supported in 6.0, but the hardware archives indicate that
> sos's MK3 patches made it into 5.4-RELEASE, and 6.0 "fully" supports the
> ICH6R.  However, I'm actually not sure the precise story here.

5.4 does not have MK3.

> Has anyone out there actually booted FreeBSD using mirrored SATA drives
> with an ICH6R?  If so, how did you do it and what version did you use?

Nothing special.  I started out with a hand-rolled bootable livecd of
-CURRENT with the MK3 patches when they first became available, and
did a manual install (no sysinstall, fdisk + disklabel + newfs + tar)

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