Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >Yes, it is supported, however the RAID portion is not. I'm still >waiting on Soren and crew to get metadata support for the RAID portion >of the ICH5-R -- this RAID controller is purely software-based, it is >not a hardware RAID solution. > >In English: the controller will work fine as a standalone SATA >controller, with the RAID option disabled. We have a couple SuperMicro >5013C-T servers which do this. You can use FreeBSD software RAID >(ataraid, ccd, or vinum) to accomplish goals instead. > >If Soren needs hardware to play with, I can gladly send him a >P4-based motherboard. RAM and CPU will be his own problem though... :) > > I have a patch for RELENG_5 which I ported from Doug Abrisko's patch for 4.10 that adds support for ICH5-R RAID metadata. Personally I use the RAID-0 mode, thus can't tell how well it would work in RAID-1. The patch is at http://www.nulis.lt/bob/download/intel-raid-patch-releng5.Received on Wed Sep 22 2004 - 05:31:32 UTC
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