kern/51970: Adaptec AIC-7902 with HostRAID option enabled fails to be probed

[Justin T. Gibbs]

> Message of Justin T. Gibbs at May 8 21:02 ...
> 
> JTG> By design.  Host RAID is not supported under FreeBSD and
> JTG> attaching to controllers in HostRAID mode is a good recipe for
> JTG> foot shooting.
> 
> %-) good cite.
> 
> But, anyway, are there any plans for supporting that? It is really
> disgusting to have some hardware functions unusable.

HostRAID is BIOS support for software RAID.  If FreeBSD grows a
software RAID stack that can understand the Adaptec meta-data,
it will be supported.

--
Justin