Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATA RAID on ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe

[Mark Rowlands]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 15:38, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is anyone using the Silicon Image SiI 3114 controller on an ASUS P5GD2
> Deluxe motherboard?  AFAICS, FreeBSD 5.3 supports the controller, but
> I can't seem to get the installer to see the SATA RAID 1 array that I
> set up using the BIOS.  The only disks in the system are two identical
> 200G Seagate drives, and I used the in-ROM Silicon Image setup utility
> to create a RAID 1 array with them.  When I boot using a 5.3
> installation CD, it sees the SiI 3114 controller, but then presents me
> with ad4 and ad6 as separate drives.  It seems my problem is much like
> the one described here:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2004-September/002082.html
>
> However, despite using atacontrol as described, I could not get ar0 to
> persist across a reboot.
>
> Is anyone using this particular motherboard?

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