Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:18:14 -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: <425C1EF6.4000608@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050412191830.GF1209@k7.mavetju> References: <20050412130727.GE1209@k7.mavetju> <425BF587.5070904@samsco.org> <20050412191830.GF1209@k7.mavetju>
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Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:21:27AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > >>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 > > > Euhm. Oh. Software RAID? A la WinModems? More or less. It's quite common these days, with lots of motherboard makers getting into the game and licensing software raid stacks for their onboard SATA controllers. > > But then I don't understand that it gets away with advertising it > as a RAID0/1 controller... If you don't understand then you should be glad that you didn't choose Marketting as a profession ;-) Scott
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