From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 21:32:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D423616A4B3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:32:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx04.covadmail.net [63.65.120.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AED0F44028 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:32:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 27161 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2003 04:32:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ice.nodomain) (68.164.194.23) by sun-qmail10 with SMTP; 28 Sep 2003 04:32:42 -0000 Received: from ice.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8S4Wn0S000579; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:32:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@ice.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h8S4WmT6000578; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:32:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:32:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <200309280432.h8S4WmT6000578@ice.nodomain> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org cc: dan@ice.nodomain cc: gaml@buz.ch Subject: Re: Sil680 RAID Support while installing 5.1-Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 04:32:49 -0000 on Sat, 27 Sep 2003, gaml@buz.ch wrote: > I was wondering about the online Sil 3112 SATA RAID controller on my > Gigabyte 7VAXP board. The 5.1 RELEASE boot CD crashes saying it > couldn't write to root (which is weird, considering it usually should > be able to write to memfs??). That also seems odd to me. My Gigabyte 8KNXP motherboard also has a Sil 3112 SATA RAID controller. I can configure it in BIOS to operate in either "base" (i.e. SATA) mode or in "raid" mode. My 5.1-RELEASE system just ignores the PCI device in either case because there is no 5.1-RELEASE driver for either personality. (The controller identifies itself slightly differently in its PCI configuration space header depending on the mode.) I recall booting the 5.1-RELEASE CD with the Sil 3112 controller in base mode to see if 5.1-RELEASE had a driver for it and had no problem (and no luck either). Someone recently wrote in one of the freebsd-mailing-lists that they had recently committed a Sil 3112 driver (personality unstated) in the 5.1-current branch. Dan Strick