On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:19:28PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 06:36 PM 9/15/2007, Karl Denninger wrote: > > >I'm not all that interested in using it as a RAID adapter. I am, however, > >interested in using it as a disk adapter, as a way to both spread load AND > >benefit from its cache memory. > > Can you not turn off the RAID feature in the BIOS so that the SATA > ports work just as SATA disks ? > > ---Mike
It is off. On the BIOS probe it just shows up as a disk; I tried it as a "JBOD" single disk and also with the RAID feature shut off entirely, so its just a disk adapter according to the BIOS. If there's a disk plugged into it, with all the fancy-schmancy RAID stuff turned off, it blows up BTX instantly when I hit "F1" to boot from the first disk. It is, in that configuration, the FIFTH disk (and has no partitions on it - so its not a matter of it trying to boot Winblows or something like that) I can't get a dump easily since of course it happens right from the boot process, so there's nowhere for it to dump TO. Is there something that I can do (e.g. what registers/info would help if I wrote them down?) since it would have to literally be transcribed manually..... -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant & Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.net My home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://genesis3.blogspot.com Musings Of A Sentient Mind %SPAMBLOCK-SYS: Matched [EMAIL PROTECTED], message ok _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
