From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 11:39:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E23F106564A for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:39:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jiashiun@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 122518FC38 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:39:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jiashiun@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id d26so219613eyd.7 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:39:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=satUvGULgdkX/cyJv+EkHg5n72uAUJYIY0SUx2Z2ZBM=; b=I5odSaI+tr+rhrT/+hG9jF5An9DB8kzJBXhpH/h3XAKvG9dbx0VVfp51IpxemnY7bY /bBR/v5Ivd3c0h2Pu1yVtDRYeS5frpf8OpACiijXzvLlAykkZesgaQZGxmA5plya2nye c3XSTKhNTvpY6e4nQzZ/GpWnPZkzlN5ElJWtA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dnmY0dMbRnt+UDMnXltk7H/o58bCM4wJ6pBXHp0OZcCCgVieJQj7qHRC6XPhPUaJ1w wM+FvvCFSOJ+qyLYoNwfueK6WsIMnO418q2PrNY8MHZwGDUygf0UwlJKTi4UpKpFqAal rO5dSp9X8inLdEWWdYP9P4IZMeWFmYMkbL+t8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.120.7 with SMTP id s7mr4378174ebc.184.1232190633386; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:10:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <21506446.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <21506446.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:10:33 +0800 Message-ID: <1d6d20bc0901170310k59673885t70ad7c2f6e7be2b9@mail.gmail.com> From: Jia-Shiun Li To: ThinkDifferently Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to make a bootable RAID on AMD 700 series chipset? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:39:03 -0000 On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, ThinkDifferently wrote: > Specifically, I have a motherboard with the South Bridge AMD SB700 chipset > for I/O and RAID support. This RAID requires a driver to be loaded at boot > time (from the "ok" prompt) before the OS loads to recognize the RAID. ataraid(4) does not have any info about ATI chipsets, and nor does dmraid of Linux. Supposingly ATI did not release info about software RAID metadata format so there is little the community can do. Since AMD released GPU info after acquiring ATI, maybe they need a poke about chipsets? JIa-Shiun.