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?

More or less. It's quite common these days, with lots of motherboard makers getting into the game and licensing software raid stacks for
their onboard SATA controllers.



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

If you don't understand then you should be glad that you didn't choose Marketting as a profession ;-)

Scott
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