FreeBSD 5.4 and Sli 3114 sata controller broken?

[Gayn Winters]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Evan Jones
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:49 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 and Sli 3114 sata controller broken?
> 
> I have a Tyan s2882 mainboard with an integrated SLI 3114 SATA RAID 
> controler on board. I have four 120gig sata drives attached 
> to it. I can 
> succefully build a RAID 0, 1 or 10 in the BIOS, but the created RAID 
> dosent seem to show up in Freebsd. The drives get detected but I can 
> only seem to use them as individual drives and not a raid 
> array. I can 
> successfully create a raid using ATA control but from what I 
> understand 
> that is a software RAID only.
> 
> Anyone know what is going on? I cant seem to find any info on 
> Sli 3114 
> support in freebsd.
> 
My guess is that you are going to have to wait for the "mk III" patches
in the ata controller driver that are coming in 6.0.  Those of us using
the Intel ICH5 and ICH6 controllers (search for ICH6 in the mail
archives for questions, hackers, and hardware) are in the same boat.  To
learn about mk III (or mk3) read Soren Schmidt's March progress report
on the ata driver. Man ata shows that the SiI 3114 is supported, at
least as a set of disks.

-gayn