Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

At 15:08 15/02/2007, Lanny Baron wrote:
>[...]The onboard RAID is only supported for Red Hat and Windows and 
>perhaps a couple of other name brand Linux distros. [etc]

Untrue. See the following dmesg highlights:

...
FreeBSD 6.1-20060910-SNAP #0: Tue Oct 17 18:08:31 BST 2006
...
cpi0: <INTEL S5000PAL> on motherboard
...
atapci1: <Intel 63XXESB2 SATA300 controller> port 
0x40d8-0x40df,0x40f4-0x40f7,0x40d0-0x40d7,0x40f0-0x40f3,0x4020-0x403f 
mem 0xb8c00000-0xb8c003ff irq 20 at device 31.2 on pci0
...
ad4: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata2-master SATA300
ad6: 239372MB <Maxtor 7V250F0 VA111630> at ata3-master SATA300
ar0: 238418MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID1> status: READY
ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad4 at ata2-master
ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master
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Chris Bishop
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