Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:07:16 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA controller cards supported by FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030930220008.B74851@bullseye.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <200309300211.h8U2BkCZ001224@ice.nodomain> References: <200309300211.h8U2BkCZ001224@ice.nodomain>
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Dan Strick wrote:
> Does FreeBSD support any PCI ATA controller cards other than those
> made by HighPoint and Promise? Everything else that I can identify
> in the ATA section of the HARDWARE.TXT file seems to be a CPU support
> chipset.
>
> I am confused by the HighPoint model numbers listed. HPT370, HPT372,
> and HPT374 are RAID controller ICs. The Rocket133 ATA controller card
> made by HighPoint uses the HPT302 IC, which is not listed in the
> HARDWARE.TXT file. (Is it too new? Is it not supported?)
> Given that HighPoint sports a FreeBSD logo on its web site, I would
> expect broader hardware support.
>
> I am also a little confused by the Promise products listed in the
> HARDWARE.TXT file. Every single FastTrak or TX2000 product listed
> on the Promise web site is a RAID controller. The only ATA controller
> from the HARDWARE.TXT file described on the Promise web site is the
> Ultra-133 TX2. The other Ultra-xxx products are presumably old and
> discontinued.
>
> Summary: with the *single* exception of the Promise Ultra-133 TX2,
> every single supported ATA controller listed in the HARDWARE.TXT file
> is either old/discontinued, a chipset, or actually a RAID controller
> and not an ATA controller.
>
> This can't be right. Surely FreeBSD supports a bunch of PCI ATA
> controller cards. What/Where are they?
>
> If I took the HARDWARE.TXT file literally, I would also have to
> conclude that FreeBSD did not support a single ISA ATA controller
> card.
>
> I must have missed something really obvious and important.
> Can someone point me in the right direction.
I believe that CMD 64[789] based PCI controllers are supported (I had one
running on a 4.7 system anyway).
AFAIK, the Highpoint controllers can be used for JBOD - you just don't
define an array. Ditto for many Promise controllers, though driver
support is more patchy. FreeBSD 5's ATA code also supports Intersil (I
think; may have the mfr name wrong) based controllers.
Regards,
Andrew.
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