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Date:      Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:21:27 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 1210 weird behaviour
Message-ID:  <425BF587.5070904@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050412130727.GE1209@k7.mavetju>
References:  <20050412130727.GE1209@k7.mavetju>

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Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> The Adaptec 1210 is a serial ATA RAID0/1 controller.
> 
> When the two disks are configured as RAID1, FreeBSD still sees two
> harddisks instead of one.
> 
> This is with 5.3. Scary :-)
> Will try this weekend with 5.4
> 

The 1210 is not a real RAID controller, it's a SATA controller with an
Adaptec BIOS that does RAID 0 and 1 during boot.  It's up to the OS to
do the RAID operations after that.  The new ATA driver in 6-current
might actually be able to handle this, so it's worth trying.  5.4
definitely will not.

Scott



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