From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 06:08:28 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 D264316A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:08:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10D743D2D for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:08:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBN68sIf029485; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:08:54 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id iBN68sb1029484; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:08:54 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:08:54 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: John Nielsen Message-ID: <20041223060854.GB28133@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200412221315.47189.lists@jnielsen.net> <20041222202248.GB24094@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <200412222048.32037.lists@jnielsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DBIVS5p969aUjpLe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412222048.32037.lists@jnielsen.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nForce2 RAID MCP (SATA) support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:08:28 -0000 --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:48:31PM -0700, John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 01:22 pm, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:15:46PM -0700, John Nielsen wrote: > > > Hi folks- > > > > > > I'm trying to find out if there is support for integrated nForce2 RAID > > > MCP SATA controller already or planned in the forseeable future. > > > > > > I'm setting up a system with an MSI K7N2 Delta2 Series motherboard.= =20 > > > Booting from 5.3-R, the controller is detected as a generic ata > > > controller and runs the disks at UDMA33. I'm actually quite impressed > > > by the hardware even without a specialized driver, but I'd like to kn= ow > > > what to expect in terms of support. > > > > This RAID controler requires a software RAID implementation. We do > > support the necessicary RAID functionality, but apparently we don't > > support the meta data used by your BIOS. All your average onboard RAID > > system does is allow you to boot from a mirror or strip. Once you're > > booted, it's up to the OS to read the geometry data from the disks and > > proceed with software RAID support. Since there's no standard for the > > on-disk metadata, we only support those systems were we've managed to > > pry the data out of the manufacture or reverse engineer the format. >=20 > That's understandable. I don't have an immediate need for RAID support= =20 > though. What would be needed to simply have the controller recognized an= d=20 > able to support UDMA 150 (or even 133)? At least in current, there's an nForce2 MCP device id that is supposed to support UDMA6 so I suspect you may just need to wait a bit and it will arrive. It's possiable you have a board with a non-standard PCI-id. You might make sure "pciconf -lv" shows that your controler shows a device ID of 0x008510de. If not, you may be a simple matter of adding it to the necessicary two lines. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBymD2XY6L6fI4GtQRAjm9AJ4mRMRwGDrCGJWxLtRsDTGjN9oeWwCeMDe9 aCnL6cJGCALCY08iVrfiNfg= =+gBc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe--