From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 20:21:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95BF16A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 20:21:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blue.gerhardt-it.com (gw.gerhardt-it.com [204.83.38.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EC243D45 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 20:21:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@g-it.ca) Received: from [192.168.0.102] (hsdbsk69-11-109-122.sasknet.sk.ca [69.11.109.122]) by blue.gerhardt-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38278FD96; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:21:38 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <20041105143116.A21566@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20041105143116.A21566@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <4A3387E2-2F68-11D9-92E4-000393801C60@g-it.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Scott Gerhardt Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:21:35 -0600 To: "Marc G. Fournier" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:21:39 -0000 There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but all of those onboard RAID controllers are not true hardware raid (Host raid) and require special software drivers in the OS. You are much better off purchasing a separate hardware raid controller such as the 3Ware 8006-2LP 2 port, 3Ware 9500S-4LP 4 port, Adaptec 2410SA 4-port controllers. They do true hardware raid and work with FreeBSD. Hope that answers your question. Thanks, -- Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies On Nov 5, 2004, at 12:32 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > "Dual-channel SATA 100 (two connectors) integrated with RAID 0 and 1 > support" > > If I have 4 drives in the above, could I stripe two to each other and > then mirror those together? Or is it strip *or* mirror? > > also, not sure if this is a no brainer, but would FreeBSD support that > resultant array? > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services > (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: > 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >