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Cc: Claude Khalil <c.khalil@webmatique.ca>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems
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Hi Bob,

That is very odd. In our testing when enabling the onboard software RAID 
it would show up as AD4 and AD6 as you show below. And this was with 
6.2-RELEASE/AMD64. Are you running i386? Please let me know.

Thanks Bob.
Regards,
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Lanny Baron
Freedom Technologies Corporation
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High Performance Servers and RAID Storage Systems

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Bob Bishop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At 15:08 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote:
>> [...]The onboard RAID is only supported for Red Hat and Windows and 
>> perhaps a couple of other name brand Linux distros. [etc]
> 
> Untrue. See the following dmesg highlights:
> 
> ...
> FreeBSD 6.1-20060910-SNAP #0: Tue Oct 17 18:08:31 BST 2006
> ...
> cpi0: <INTEL S5000PAL> on motherboard
> ...
> atapci1: <Intel 63XXESB2 SATA300 controller> port 
> 0x40d8-0x40df,0x40f4-0x40f7,0x40d0-0x40d7,0x40f0-0x40f3,0x4020-0x403f 
> mem 0xb8c00000-0xb8c003ff irq 20 at device 31.2 on pci0
> ...
> ad4: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata2-master SATA300
> ad6: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata3-master SATA300
> ar0: 238418MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID1> status: READY
> ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad4 at ata2-master
> ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master
> ------------------------------
> Chris Bishop
> www.chrisbishop.org
> chris@chrisbishop.org
> +44 (0)7776 258368
>