Re: Serial ATA?

From: Alexandre Biancalana (biancalana_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/23/04

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    Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:10:22 -0200
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    I recently installed two machines with this motherboard. The
    controller is supported but your Raid features not....

    On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:59:23 +0100, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> wrote:
    > Peterhin wrote:
    >
    > > I would like to move over to FreeBSD from Linux, only been there for a
    > > year.
    > >
    > > I am starting at groung zero. I have read the hardware list for 4.9
    > > STABLE and
    > > 5.2.1 RELEASE. All I can find in 3.1 "Disk Controller with Promise
    > > ATA100/133
    > > OEM chip (pdc20265/69) I am using a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard,
    > > with a
    > > Promise PDC20378 Raid Controller and a Western Digital Serial ATA H.D. Will
    > > FreeBSD work.?
    >
    > Yes. The controller is definitely supported. I'm not entirely sure about
    > RAID functions but they are most probably supported too.
    >
    > If you have looked at supported hardware for 5.3 you would find a link to
    > ata(4) manual page, which lists the controller as supported.
    >
    > It has been supported for long time but only recently (for 5.2) it got into
    > manual pages and even more recently it's reflected in the release
    > documentation (for 5.3).
    >
    > Michal
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