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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:24:22 +0200
From:      Michael Fuckner <michael@fuckner.net>
To:        Nicola Gigante <nicola.gigante@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel 3420 disk controller and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4BCE9A16.7050809@fuckner.net>
In-Reply-To: <4180EDEC-DBAA-41C1-9922-1BFC38224984@gmail.com>
References:  <4180EDEC-DBAA-41C1-9922-1BFC38224984@gmail.com>

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On 04/19/10 20:42, Nicola Gigante wrote:

Hi
> But in particular I'm interested in the disk/raid controller. The machine's technical details say it ships with a
> motherboard based on the Intel 3420 chipset. Is it supported by FreeBSD? Is its RAID controller supported
> (assuming that's the chipset that handles RAID)?

The Chipset can operate in 3 Modes: IDE, AHCI and RAID. Depending on the 
mode it has different PCI-IDs.

It is said to support (driver-)raid, but I don't use it.

When set to AHCI-Mode, the pci-id is 0x3b22. I use AHCI and it is 
supported by ahci in FreeBSD.


> In case the RAID controller should result unsupported, would that mean that I can't even use the disk controller
> at all?
if it is not supported, you simply can't use it.

Regards,
  Michael!



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