From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 06:32:19 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 84DBB16A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:32:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao02.cox.net (lakermmtao02.cox.net [68.230.240.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A99943D45 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:32:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by lakermmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20041223063212.LLPA2202.lakermmtao02.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:32:12 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:32:53 -0600 To: "Maxim M. Kazachek" References: <200412221315.47189.lists@jnielsen.net> <20041222202248.GB24094@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20041223060854.GB28133@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20041223121128.G21793@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20041223121128.G21793@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54u1 (Linux, build 892) cc: John Nielsen cc: 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 06:32:19 -0000 On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:19:58 +0600 (NOVT), Maxim M. Kazachek wrote: > MCP 2 doesn't have ANY SATA support. MCP have 6ch codec, 2xATA133, I have the same (maybe, mine is 7N2 Delta2 Platinum) motherboard as his and it does has SATA support. Mine SATA is disabled in BIOS, which I don't have any SATA HD. http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K7N2_Delta2_Platinum&class=mb ===================================== ? nVIDIA nForce2 Gigabit MCP Chipset - Integrated Ethernet MAC - Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio - Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller - Supports USB 2.0 - Integrated SATA Interface ===================================== Cheers, Mezz > 6xUSB2, 100Mbps ethernet, 6xPCI. MCP-T also have IEEE1394, SoundStorm > support (I'm afraid it still unsupported, just 6ch codec too) and the > interface for second 100Mbps ethernet (3COM). No SATA at all... Usually > motherboard manufacturers add SATA controller (Silicon, etc) that allows > to implement SATA support. Some puts GigE chip. But usually you need to > pay a fee - one or more available PCI slots. > > Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek > mailto:stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru > mailto:stranger@fpm.ami.nstu.ru > > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Brooks Davis wrote: > >> 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. >>>>> 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 >>>>> know >>>>> 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. >>> >>> That's understandable. I don't have an immediate need for RAID support >>> though. What would be needed to simply have the controller recognized >>> and >>> 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 >> >> -- 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 >> -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org