Re: Whay is broken ATARAID that ignored?

Am Montag, 12. Juli 2004 21:00 schrieben Sie:
> Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > I reported that atarid is broken for sil0680 since Sørens last commit on
> > 07/25 (rev 1.79.)
> > Nobody responded nor is there any comment in UPDATING.
> > This is a severe bug and nobody seems to care about, at least I haven't
> > got any "I know, but....."
> >
> > The man page still claims to support these controllers. But they've never
> > really been. As soon as one drive fails, the support fails because no
> > rebuild is possible (with -stable).
> >
> > Please remove the HPT372, sil0680 and (I tested that one today) the
> > sil649 from the man page as beeing supported. They are not. Neither in
> > -current nor in -stable.
> > People like me take these man pages as reference and purchase hardware
> > which is said to be supported.
> >
> > Or fix it. At least there should be a note in UPDATING. It's horrible to
> > find out that suddenly the system doesn't detect ar0 any more!!!
> > And nobody cares about for over two weeks.......
> >
> > If I could fix it I would do it. Regrettably I can't. But I did painful
> > tests.....
>
> Well, you get what you paid for :)
>
> Anyhow the problem probably is that only SiI type RAID are looked for
> and you have FreeBSD native type defined since that was what was there
> before the LSI/AMI stuff was added.
>
> I'll look at it when I have time, currently I'm on vacation, a damned
> well earned one if you ask me 8)

Hello Søren, nice to hear from you.
First, have a nice holiday and don't care about the sil068 any more, just 
remove support for it, at least as raid1 mirror, I think it's wasted time 
trying to get this controller working.
I'm about to do a test series about these "cheap" controllers and found that 
the SiliconImage are simply trash.
I'd say to concentrate on the promise chips, they work well and Highpoint is 
providing drivers which also have all the functionality one needs, so radi1 
support for the HPT could also be removed.

Thanks you and I hope when you're back from vacation I finished my tests.

Best regards,

-Harry

>
> -Søren