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Subject: Re[2]: Sil680 RAID Support while installing 5.1-Release
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Hello Derek,

Saturday, September 27, 2003, 8:50:21 PM, you wrote:

> Gabriel,

> I experienced the same problem using 5.1 release with an Adaptec SATA
> Raid card that uses the SATA Sil3112A chip.

> With 5.1-CURRENT I can get FreeBSD to install, but the server locks-up
> because the disk subsystem gets a DMA write error that it either never
> recovers from or falls into the debugger (most times it does NOT go to
> the debugger.)

> There are a few of us using SATA Sil3112A chips and experiencing these
> problems.


It seems to boot ok with the latest snapshot boot cd from
current.freebsd.org HOWEVER whatever I do, the disks will show up
individually in the setup and not as array.


Best regards,
 Gabriel