Sil680 RAID Support while installing 5.1-Release

[Andrew Chan]

I don't know about 5.1-Current, but if you look at the ata-raid.* code in
the 5.1-Release kernel source tree, you will find that only Promise and
Highpoint chips are supported.

This is a pity because the Sil0680 chip is the cheapest and most widely
available around. It is selling for less than US$20 here in Hong Kong with
ATA133 and full "RAID" capabilities.

While it may not be super fast, it does work alright under Windows
environment.

If it is indeed supported under 5.1-Current, that is great news.

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Troyer" <troyertm at email.uc.edu>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>; <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 10:56 PM
Subject: Sil680 RAID Support while installing 5.1-Release


> I just purchased a Sil680 IDE RAID controller, and have setup
> a striped RAID array.  When I boot from the 5.1 installation
> CD-ROM, FreeBSD does not recognize them as one disk.  I
> checked the hardware notes, and "Sil680 UDMA6" is listed.
> Seeing Sil680 listed, I assumed that the RAID capabilities
> would also be supported.  I read something posted awhile back
> referring to the Sil680 controller, saying it was supported,
> but dangerous unless using 5.1-Current.  Does anybody know
> anything about the current status of this?  Is there anyway to
> get the FreeBSD installation to recognize my RAID array, or
> should I just buy another controller?