AIC9410 support

[Scott Long]

Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> I've been able to locate some old posts about the Adaptec AIC9410 
> chipset. I've acquired one of these in a new server:
> 
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/7045/SYS-7045B-3.cfm?PID=TWR
> 
> We are looking to set up 2 SATA drives in a mirrored pair and started 
> with trying to get it to work under FreeBSD 6. When I couldn't get it to 
> detect the driver I then tried the most recent August CURRENT snapshot. 
> It does not appear to recognise the drives either as a RAID set or 
> separately when booting from the FreeBSD current CD.
> 
> The only historical references I could find were:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg79964.html
> 
> where a year ago Scott Long suggests that it might work in HostRAID mode 
> but not in standalone mode. I've Googled extensively and couldn't find a 
> description of how HostRAID mode is different to full 'regular' RAID. It 
> appears to be some sort of RAID where the system CPU does more of the 
> work, but I'm not sure.
> 
> My questions:
> 
> * is the AIC9410 supported in any version of FreeBSD, whether I am using 
> the Adaptec HostRAID or just mounting the drives individually?
> 
> * does raidutil (part of ports/systutils/asr-utils) usable with this 
> chipset?
> 
> 

No on both accounts, sorry.  Maybe in the future.

Scott