Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:11:16 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> Subject: Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller Message-ID: <200709161211.23934.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20070915223649.GA6439@FS.denninger.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Karl Denninger wrote: > It has an on-board RAID controller with some internal buffer memory. > > I'm not all that interested in using it as a RAID adapter. I am, > however, interested in using it as a disk adapter, as a way to both > spread load AND benefit from its cache memory. > > Unfortunately, BTX panics if I attach a disk to it! I have no idea > if FreeBSD would see the disks as just "normal" "ad" disks, as I > can't get anywhere near that far to find out... > > Any ideas? Why would BTX throw a hissy fit? Possibly a bug in BTX.. without the dump info it can't be debugged though.. Could be a buggy BIOS too. Also if you aren't using it as RAID I doubt it will use the cache memory at all.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBG7JfT5ZPcIHs/zowRAmDhAJ4xWtL25U91gvJRBQl2+N6YE5TILACgo8Mc YlH0asRziaYsXUKfquRguYA= =yMMJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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