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Subject: [9fans] VIA  VT8237 SATA/RAID
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Hi,

I have an MSI K8T NEO2 FIR Motherboard with on-board VT8237 SATA/RAID

I connected two SATA drives to it and used the BIOS Raid creator to 
create a striped RAID set.

When I booted into Plan 9 I didn't get the single striped drive I was 
hoping for :

--rw-r----- S 0 maht maht    15990784 Mar  5  2006 sdE0/data
-lrw------- S 0 maht maht           0 Mar  5  2006 sdE0/raw
--rw-r----- S 0 maht maht           0 Mar  5  2006 sdE0/ctl
--rw-r----- S 0 maht maht    15990784 Mar  5  2006 sdF0/data
-lrw------- S 0 maht maht           0 Mar  5  2006 sdF0/raw
--rw-r----- S 0 maht maht           0 Mar  5  2006 sdF0/ctl

(yes they are 16Mb drives - they're compact flash in a SATA adapter)

I rebooted and formatted them as FAT with Windows to test the striping 
which worked fine but but the result in Plan 9 was the same.



I have an on-board SiL 3114 SATA/RAID at work so I'll try that one next