On 4/12/2005 2:18 PM, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:21:27AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
Edwin Groothuis wrote:
The Adaptec 1210 is a serial ATA RAID0/1 controller.

When the two disks are configured as RAID1, FreeBSD still sees two
harddisks instead of one.

This is with 5.3. Scary :-)
Will try this weekend with 5.4

The 1210 is not a real RAID controller, it's a SATA controller with an Adaptec BIOS that does RAID 0 and 1 during boot. It's up to the OS to do the RAID operations after that. The new ATA driver in 6-current

Euhm. Oh. Software RAID? A la WinModems?

But then I don't understand that it gets away with advertising it
as a RAID0/1 controller...

The RAID functionality is implemented in the driver, so the "product" as a whole is a RAID0/1 controller. This is very common; in fact, most products under $150-200 are like this...


Jon
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