From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 08:42:04 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 CAD9C16A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:42:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3684243D54 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.9/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i38FflCd016760; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:41:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.9/8.12.5/Submit) id i38FfkRL016759; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:41:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:41:46 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: S?ren Schmidt Message-ID: <20040408154146.GB16585@panzer.kdm.org> References: <200404071415.i37EF9Rl047872@ambrisko.com> <40741A8E.3050504@mullet.se> <407554E3.4050109@DeepCore.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <407554E3.4050109@DeepCore.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: Martin Nilsson cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ICH5R SATA RAID? 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, 08 Apr 2004 15:42:04 -0000 On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 15:34:27 +0200, S?ren Schmidt wrote: > Martin Nilsson wrote: > >Doug Ambrisko wrote: > > >There are Supermicro boards with Intel/Marvell SATA controllers that > >have Adaptec HostRAID bioses, drivers for linux (binary only) are > >available in ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SATA/ > > >There are no mention of these divers on Adaptecs site, from the included > >readmes they seem to be called AAR > > > >As we sell Supermicro, I have different boards to test with if needed. > > I have what I need to do support for the Marvell chip on those boards > except the HW to test on. If anyone know of a PCI based Marvell > controller and can get me one delivered on my doorstep, we can have > native marvell support added to the ATA driver in a resonable short time... I believe the boards sold by RAIDCore/Broadcom might fit the bill: http://www.raidcore.net/raid_controllers.html They have a BIOS that understands RAIDCore metadata, though, so that won't help you write any code deal with Adaptec metadata. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@FreeBSD.ORG