Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:20:57 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AIC9410 support Message-ID: <46E552C9.7090106@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <5C400D5C-7E83-41D2-A66F-C3903D6E1AB1@ish.com.au> References: <5C400D5C-7E83-41D2-A66F-C3903D6E1AB1@ish.com.au>
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Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > 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 The only historical references I could find were: 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? > > No on both accounts, sorry. Maybe in the future. Scott
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