Subject: Re: RAID controllers
To: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/26/2005 22:40:16
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:41:48AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:26:44 +0100
> Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> > I have good experience with an Adaptec RAID card:
> > 
> > aac0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0: Adaptec ASR-2410SA
> > aac0: interrupting at irq 9
> > aac0: Unknown processor at 100MHz, 48MB cache, optional battery not installed, kernel 4.1-0
> > ld0 at aac0 unit 0: RAID 1 (Mirror)
> 
> Yah, I just wish we could fix PR#30456 so that I could run the amd64
> port on my amd64 with the Adaptec ASR-2410SA.

Please try src/sys/dev/ic/aac.c revision 1.25 - the driver compiles
on amd64 with that change. It would not work on machines with >4GB
RAM still, though - perhaps it could be changed to at least emit warning
on boot when system has > 4GB RAM, or to not attach at all in that case.

Jaromir
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