From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 19:21:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0610A16A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:21:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D16F43D60 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:21:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3CJOgtv039541; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:24:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <425C1EF6.4000608@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:18:14 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edwin Groothuis References: <20050412130727.GE1209@k7.mavetju> <425BF587.5070904@samsco.org> <20050412191830.GF1209@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20050412191830.GF1209@k7.mavetju> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 1210 weird behaviour X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:21:26 -0000 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