Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Karl Denninger wrote:
> It has an on-board RAID controller with some internal buffer memory.
>
> I'm not all that interested in using it as a RAID adapter.  I am,
> however, interested in using it as a disk adapter, as a way to both
> spread load AND benefit from its cache memory.
>
> Unfortunately, BTX panics if I attach a disk to it!  I have no idea
> if FreeBSD would see the disks as just "normal" "ad" disks, as I
> can't get anywhere near that far to find out...
>
> Any ideas?  Why would BTX throw a hissy fit?

Possibly a bug in BTX.. without the dump info it can't be debugged 
though..

Could be a buggy BIOS too.

Also if you aren't using it as RAID I doubt it will use the cache memory 
at all..

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