ICH5 / Intel 6300ESB SATA RAID - supported by Linux or not?

[Roger Jorgensen]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> We just bought an IBM xSeries 306 server, which boasts to have a "IBM 
> ServeRAID-7e (Adaptect HostRAID) controller".

Got the same issue when I bought my xSeries 206 server, ended up using Linux 
md raid... had no time to get the support in :/



> Although I created an array in BIOS, it is not seen by Linux.
> 
> I use 2.6.12.6 kernel.
> 
> Here is additional info from lspci:
> 
> 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SATA RAID 
> Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8f)
>          Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 02ae
>          Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr+ Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>          Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium 
>  >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>          Latency: 0
>          Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
>          Region 0: I/O ports at 1450 [size=8]
>          Region 1: I/O ports at 1444 [size=4]
>          Region 2: I/O ports at 1448 [size=8]
>          Region 3: I/O ports at 1440 [size=4]
>          Region 4: I/O ports at 1430 [size=16]
> 
> and from dmesg:
> 
> ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> ICH5: chipset revision 2
> ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>      ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>      ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1428-0x142f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> 
> 
> Is it supported by Linux, or do I have to use md devices / Linux 
> software RAID instead?
> 
> dmraid doen't find any devices, fdisk -l shows onyl /dev/sda and 
> /dev/sdb drives.
> 
> 
> 

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