From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 14:45:07 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 1DEA416A41A for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC52813C459 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:45:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8AELGWl032378; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:21:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <46E552C9.7090106@samsco.org> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:20:57 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aristedes Maniatis References: <5C400D5C-7E83-41D2-A66F-C3903D6E1AB1@ish.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5C400D5C-7E83-41D2-A66F-C3903D6E1AB1@ish.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:21:17 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 14:45:07 -0000 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 The only historical references I could find were: 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