Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:00:24 -0700 From: "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@mail.bristolsystems.com> To: "'Evan Jones'" <evan.jones@tilcon.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 5.4 and Sli 3114 sata controller broken? Message-ID: <078e01c58347$d10fd6c0$c901a8c0@workdog> In-Reply-To: <42CD8716.8050204@tilcon.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Evan Jones > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:49 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 and Sli 3114 sata controller broken? > > I have a Tyan s2882 mainboard with an integrated SLI 3114 SATA RAID > controler on board. I have four 120gig sata drives attached > to it. I can > succefully build a RAID 0, 1 or 10 in the BIOS, but the created RAID > dosent seem to show up in Freebsd. The drives get detected but I can > only seem to use them as individual drives and not a raid > array. I can > successfully create a raid using ATA control but from what I > understand > that is a software RAID only. > > Anyone know what is going on? I cant seem to find any info on > Sli 3114 > support in freebsd. > My guess is that you are going to have to wait for the "mk III" patches in the ata controller driver that are coming in 6.0. Those of us using the Intel ICH5 and ICH6 controllers (search for ICH6 in the mail archives for questions, hackers, and hardware) are in the same boat. To learn about mk III (or mk3) read Soren Schmidt's March progress report on the ata driver. Man ata shows that the SiI 3114 is supported, at least as a set of disks. -gayn
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