Is there any chance of seeing this put into -CURRENT? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. | On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:31:29AM +0300, Saulius Menkevicius wrote: > 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 - 13:19:24 UTC
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