Re: Adaptec 1420SA support?

Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Scott Long wrote:
> 
> SL> > You can try this patch.
> SL> > http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/ata/marvell/adaptec.diff
> SL> 
> SL> That should at least make the chip start to do I/O.  I'm not sure if the
> SL> BIOS-based RAID will work in FreeBSD, though.  Make sure you have the
> SL> ata-raid device loaded so it can at least try to work.  If it doesn't,
> SL> do a 'dd' dump of the very last sector of the disks and send it to me.
> 
> well, after patching RELENG_7 I have (verbose booting)
> 
> atapci4: <Adaptec 1420SA SATA300 controller> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 
> 0xefd00000-0xefdfffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> ioapic0: routing intpin 17 (PCI IRQ 17) to vector 55
> atapci4: [MPSAFE]
> atapci4: [ITHREAD]
> # dd if=/dev/ad18 skip=156301487 | hd
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> 00000000  11 de 11 de d1 1f a7 c1  a0 67 cf 2d 05 90 41 02  |.........g.-..A.|

Please apply the following patch to the /sys/dev/ata directory:

    http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/ataraid-ddf.diff

And add the following file to the same directory:

    http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/ata-raid-ddf.h

Scott