From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 16 02:41:44 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 309CB16A418 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:41:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A902F13C45B for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:41:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-69-84.lns10.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.69.84]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8G2fZbr088642 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:11:35 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:11:16 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20070915223649.GA6439@FS.denninger.net> In-Reply-To: <20070915223649.GA6439@FS.denninger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1890470.0HRVYgV8GK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200709161211.23934.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Karl Denninger Subject: Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:41:44 -0000 --nextPart1890470.0HRVYgV8GK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 though.. Could be a buggy BIOS too. Also if you aren't using it as RAID I doubt it will use the cache memory=20 at all.. =2D-=20 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 --nextPart1890470.0HRVYgV8GK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBG7JfT5ZPcIHs/zowRAmDhAJ4xWtL25U91gvJRBQl2+N6YE5TILACgo8Mc YlH0asRziaYsXUKfquRguYA= =yMMJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1890470.0HRVYgV8GK--