Intel ICH5R Raid support

[Christian Brueffer]

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

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