From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 19:23:25 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 A91A016A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:23:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 382E943D2D for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:23:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noacks@swbell.net@70.240.205.64 with login) by smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Apr 2005 19:23:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E445B612B; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:23:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06775-08; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:23:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (optimator [192.168.1.11]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCF86109; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:23:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <425C2029.2010109@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:23:21 -0500 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.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 Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu 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 19:23:25 -0000 On 4/12/2005 2:18 PM, 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? > > But then I don't understand that it gets away with advertising it > as a RAID0/1 controller... The RAID functionality is implemented in the driver, so the "product" as a whole is a RAID0/1 controller. This is very common; in fact, most products under $150-200 are like this... Jon