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Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 07:31:56 -0600
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
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Subject: Re: kern/51970: Adaptec AIC-7902 with HostRAID option enabled fails
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> Message of Justin T. Gibbs at May 8 21:02 ...
> 
> JTG> By design.  Host RAID is not supported under FreeBSD and
> JTG> attaching to controllers in HostRAID mode is a good recipe for
> JTG> foot shooting.
> 
> %-) good cite.
> 
> But, anyway, are there any plans for supporting that? It is really
> disgusting to have some hardware functions unusable.

HostRAID is BIOS support for software RAID.  If FreeBSD grows a
software RAID stack that can understand the Adaptec meta-data,
it will be supported.

--
Justin