Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:52:41 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller Message-ID: <20070916025241.GA6459@FS.denninger.net> In-Reply-To: <200709160021.l8G0LF3c093496@lava.sentex.ca> References: <20070915223649.GA6439@FS.denninger.net> <200709160021.l8G0LF3c093496@lava.sentex.ca>
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:19:28PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 06:36 PM 9/15/2007, Karl Denninger wrote: > > >I'm not all that interested in using it as a RAID adapter. I am, however, > >interested in using it as a disk adapter, as a way to both spread load AND > >benefit from its cache memory. > > Can you not turn off the RAID feature in the BIOS so that the SATA > ports work just as SATA disks ? > > ---Mike It is off. On the BIOS probe it just shows up as a disk; I tried it as a "JBOD" single disk and also with the RAID feature shut off entirely, so its just a disk adapter according to the BIOS. If there's a disk plugged into it, with all the fancy-schmancy RAID stuff turned off, it blows up BTX instantly when I hit "F1" to boot from the first disk. It is, in that configuration, the FIFTH disk (and has no partitions on it - so its not a matter of it trying to boot Winblows or something like that) I can't get a dump easily since of course it happens right from the boot process, so there's nowhere for it to dump TO. Is there something that I can do (e.g. what registers/info would help if I wrote them down?) since it would have to literally be transcribed manually..... -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Internet Consultant & Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.net My home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://genesis3.blogspot.com Musings Of A Sentient Mind %SPAMBLOCK-SYS: Matched [@freebsd.org+], message ok
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