SiI0680 ATA RAID question

[Volker Eckert]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:03:50PM +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
> 
>  In 5.3-RELEASE ERRATA I see the following:
> 
>    (1 Nov 2004) ATA RAID support for the CMD649 and SiI0680 ATA
>    controllers is non-functional in this release. When such a controller
>    is brough up under ata(4) (ataraid) on 5.3, the RAID configuration
>    stored under 5.2 or prior may be corrupted.

am i getting this right: a raid config stored under 5.3 will probably
not get corrupted???


> What's the reason of the problem with SiI0680: inferiority of the hardware 
> or just programming error? Is this problem fixed in 6-CURRENT? If so, will 
> this fix be merged to 5-STABLE?

as i had problems with an nfs-server (with SiI0680) running 5.2 for no 
obvious reason, i upgraded to 5.3 - and did not encounter the above 
mentioned problem since the release of 5.3 to date. i had to recreate 
my raid configuration, though, which seemed not to harm my data.
(like this: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6)
is this the expected behaviour: doesn't recognise raids created under
5.2, but works fine with raids created under 5.3?

wondering,
Volker.