From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 19:10:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C89D1065696 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:10:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9828FC16 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:10:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from vhoffman-macbook.local ([IPv6:2001:470:9099:0:214:51ff:feed:712d]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n2VJCZ5D062348 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:12:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <49D26AAD.8020200@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:10:37 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081204 Thunderbird/3.0b1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dimiter Ivanov References: <7cc8007f0903310858u43844e3as38a43cbdd610942e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7cc8007f0903310858u43844e3as38a43cbdd610942e@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: the proper way to find if RAID is supported. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:10:40 -0000 On 31/3/09 16:58, Dimiter Ivanov wrote: > Hello, i have a Silicon Image SATA controler, which is identified as: > > > It has 4 ports, and supports RAID. > I configured the RAID trough the BIOS, but FreeBSD 7.1, does not see > the RAID arrays, only 4 separate disks. > > I searched the mailing lists, and there are few messages saying that > the RAID setup of this controller is not supported. > > Only those messages are 3-5 years old. > I want to know where can I find a definite information, if this > feature is supported now? > The 3114 is a "fakeraid" controller (FreeBSD call it ataraid, linux calls it dmraid,) all the processing is still done by the CPU so no gain over using software RAID. I've never used it but man 4 ataraid for driver details. Vince > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >