On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 02:19:31PM -0500, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > All, > > A quick search of the archives didn't get me the straight answer (although > I admit I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking). > > I'm looking at getting a Supermicro pre-built server, and the motheboard > is a Supermicro P4SCE, with an Intel ICH5R chipset. The board has onboard > SATA controllers, capable of RAID 0/1 support through the BIOS (yes, I > realize this is software raid, I'm OK with that for this use). Just > wondering if the ICH5R sata RAID is supported by 6.0 (or 6.1 if it's > released by the time I get this all done). I'd rather not have to go > through the hoops using ataraid, I'd rather just set it up in the BIOS if > there's support for it natively. > > I'll search some more, but if someone has an answer, it'd be appreciated. >
The pure SATA functionality and metadata read support for Intel MatrixRAID (which the ICH5R uses) are supported from 6.0-RELEASE onwards. 6.1-RELEASE will introduce write support for Intel metadata. See ataraid(4) for for details about read/write support. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D
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