On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:19:58 +0600 (NOVT), Maxim M. Kazachek <stranger_at_sberbank.sibnet.ru> wrote: > MCP 2 doesn't have ANY SATA support. MCP have 6ch codec, 2xATA133, I have the same (maybe, mine is 7N2 Delta2 Platinum) motherboard as his and it does has SATA support. Mine SATA is disabled in BIOS, which I don't have any SATA HD. http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K7N2_Delta2_Platinum&class=mb ===================================== ? nVIDIA nForce2 Gigabit MCP Chipset - Integrated Ethernet MAC - Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio - Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller - Supports USB 2.0 - Integrated SATA Interface ===================================== Cheers, Mezz > 6xUSB2, 100Mbps ethernet, 6xPCI. MCP-T also have IEEE1394, SoundStorm > support (I'm afraid it still unsupported, just 6ch codec too) and the > interface for second 100Mbps ethernet (3COM). No SATA at all... Usually > motherboard manufacturers add SATA controller (Silicon, etc) that allows > to implement SATA support. Some puts GigE chip. But usually you need to > pay a fee - one or more available PCI slots. > > Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek > mailto:stranger_at_sberbank.sibnet.ru > mailto:stranger_at_fpm.ami.nstu.ru > > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Brooks Davis wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:48:31PM -0700, John Nielsen wrote: >>> On Wednesday 22 December 2004 01:22 pm, Brooks Davis wrote: >>>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:15:46PM -0700, John Nielsen wrote: >>>>> Hi folks- >>>>> >>>>> I'm trying to find out if there is support for integrated nForce2 >>>>> RAID >>>>> MCP SATA controller already or planned in the forseeable future. >>>>> >>>>> I'm setting up a system with an MSI K7N2 Delta2 Series motherboard. >>>>> Booting from 5.3-R, the controller is detected as a generic ata >>>>> controller and runs the disks at UDMA33. I'm actually quite >>>>> impressed >>>>> by the hardware even without a specialized driver, but I'd like to >>>>> know >>>>> what to expect in terms of support. >>>> >>>> This RAID controler requires a software RAID implementation. We do >>>> support the necessicary RAID functionality, but apparently we don't >>>> support the meta data used by your BIOS. All your average onboard >>>> RAID >>>> system does is allow you to boot from a mirror or strip. Once you're >>>> booted, it's up to the OS to read the geometry data from the disks and >>>> proceed with software RAID support. Since there's no standard for the >>>> on-disk metadata, we only support those systems were we've managed to >>>> pry the data out of the manufacture or reverse engineer the format. >>> >>> That's understandable. I don't have an immediate need for RAID support >>> though. What would be needed to simply have the controller recognized >>> and >>> able to support UDMA 150 (or even 133)? >> >> At least in current, there's an nForce2 MCP device id that is supposed >> to support UDMA6 so I suspect you may just need to wait a bit and it >> will arrive. It's possiable you have a board with a non-standard >> PCI-id. You might make sure "pciconf -lv" shows that your controler >> shows a device ID of 0x008510de. If not, you may be a simple matter of >> adding it to the necessicary two lines. >> >> -- Brooks >> >> -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. >> PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 >> -- mezz7_at_cox.net - mezz_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome_at_FreeBSD.orgReceived on Thu Dec 23 2004 - 05:32:19 UTC
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