From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 06:35:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1301716A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 06:35:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F9FA43D1D for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 06:35:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 6933 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2004 14:34:59 -0000 Received: from 217-162-134-28.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO ?10.2.2.3?) (217.162.134.28) by 0 with SMTP; 15 Feb 2004 14:34:59 -0000 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:36:34 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <234276322.20040215153634@buz.ch> To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gU2NobWlkdA==?= In-Reply-To: <402F7E61.1060304@DeepCore.dk> References: <1123980863.20040215144711@buz.ch> <402F7E61.1060304@DeepCore.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 05:19:49 -0800 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: SI3112A SATA controller RAID support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:35:03 -0000 Hello Søren, Sunday, February 15, 2004, 3:12:49 PM, you wrote: >> I'm wondering if there's no RAID support for the SI3112A in current >> as my drives in a RAID1 array show up as ad4 and ad6 but not as ar0 in >> the setup. So if I want to use those SATA drives in a RAID1 array, do >> I really need to get another controller (presumably Highpoint based) >> (software RAID is out of question)? > All the ATA "RAID controllers" in this category are software based. > Support is depended on the BIOS type, as all that is needed is to know > the format of the RAID metadata stored on disk. Currently only HPT and > Promise formats are known, but I have code for AMI and Intel in the > works (but far from usable yet)... Then how come I can rebuild arrays on those pseudo RAID controllers but not those created with atacontrol directly (i.e. pure software)? (Or am I just doing something wrong?) Best regards, Gabriel