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Date:      Wed, 13 Apr 2005 05:18:30 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 1210 weird behaviour
Message-ID:  <20050412191830.GF1209@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <425BF587.5070904@samsco.org>
References:  <20050412130727.GE1209@k7.mavetju> <425BF587.5070904@samsco.org>

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:21:27AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> >The Adaptec 1210 is a serial ATA RAID0/1 controller.
> >
> >When the two disks are configured as RAID1, FreeBSD still sees two
> >harddisks instead of one.
> >
> >This is with 5.3. Scary :-)
> >Will try this weekend with 5.4
> 
> The 1210 is not a real RAID controller, it's a SATA controller with an
> Adaptec BIOS that does RAID 0 and 1 during boot.  It's up to the OS to
> do the RAID operations after that.  The new ATA driver in 6-current

Euhm. Oh. Software RAID? A la WinModems?

But then I don't understand that it gets away with advertising it
as a RAID0/1 controller...

Edwin

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