Whay is broken ATARAID that ignored?

[Søren Schmidt]

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)

-Søren