We have a motherboard (Supermicro X6DHT-G) with an Adaptec 2020SA SATA RAID controller. We have been unable to get any drives recognised by the FreeBSD 5.3 release installation CD, and we've been unable to find much discussion about the status of the AAC device and support for this chipset. Several other Adaptec SATA RAID controllers seem to be supported: 2410SA, 2810SA, 21610SA. The logical drive configured in the RAID controller is detected successfully in a Gentoo Linux 2004.3 environment. Has anyone had success with this controller? Any alternative you would recommend or will support be available in 5.4? I believe from the source code that the driver is maintained by Scott Long and that recent changes have been taking place. Thanks for any assistance. Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish group pty ltd http://www.ish.com.au 7 Darghan St Glebe 2037 Australia phone +61 2 9660 1400 fax +61 2 9660 7400 PGP fingerprint 08 57 20 4B 80 69 59 E2 A9 BF 2D 48 C2 20 0C C8
Aristedes Maniatis wrote:> We have a motherboard (Supermicro X6DHT-G) with an Adaptec 2020SA SATA > RAID controller. We have been unable to get any drives recognised by the > FreeBSD 5.3 release installation CD, and we've been unable to find much > discussion about the status of the AAC device and support for this > chipset. Several other Adaptec SATA RAID controllers seem to be > supported: 2410SA, 2810SA, 21610SA. The logical drive configured in the > RAID controller is detected successfully in a Gentoo Linux 2004.3 > environment. > > Has anyone had success with this controller? Any alternative you would > recommend or will support be available in 5.4? I believe from the source > code that the driver is maintained by Scott Long and that recent changes > have been taking place.You might be interested in this article: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/03/20/1944233.shtml?tid=198&tid=190&tid=172&tid=137&tid=7 I don't know how FreeBSD is related, but it's probably is.> > > Thanks for any assistance. > > Ari Maniatis > > > > --------------------------> > ish group pty ltd > http://www.ish.com.au > 7 Darghan St Glebe 2037 Australia > phone +61 2 9660 1400 fax +61 2 9660 7400 > PGP fingerprint 08 57 20 4B 80 69 59 E2 A9 BF 2D 48 C2 20 0C C8 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >-- Uzi Klein Software Development Executive http://www.bmby.com
Aristedes Maniatis wrote:> We have a motherboard (Supermicro X6DHT-G) with an Adaptec 2020SA SATA > RAID controller. We have been unable to get any drives recognised by the > FreeBSD 5.3 release installation CD, and we've been unable to find much > discussion about the status of the AAC device and support for this > chipset. Several other Adaptec SATA RAID controllers seem to be > supported: 2410SA, 2810SA, 21610SA. The logical drive configured in the > RAID controller is detected successfully in a Gentoo Linux 2004.3 > environment. > > Has anyone had success with this controller? Any alternative you would > recommend or will support be available in 5.4? I believe from the source > code that the driver is maintained by Scott Long and that recent changes > have been taking place. > > > Thanks for any assistance. > > Ari Maniatis > >The 2020 seems to be in a pre-release phase just for SuperMicro. It's not mentioned at all on the Adaptec website. I've been in contact with Adaptec engineers who are preparing updates for the FreeBSD driver for it, but it's looking unlikely that they will be done in time for the 5.4 release. Scott