From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 12:24:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7559A16A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:24:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from osiris.itlegion.ru (osiris.itlegion.ru [84.21.226.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9724E43D67 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:24:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) Received: from artem ([192.168.0.12]) by osiris.itlegion.ru (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id j23CORqw009342; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:24:27 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) X-AntiVirus: Checked by Dr.Web [version: 4.32b, engine: 4.32b, virus records: 66749, updated: 2.03.2005] Message-ID: <01ab01c51fec$c1b00b50$0c00a8c0@artem> From: "Artem Kuchin" To: "Gavin Atkinson" References: <20050302104641.44708.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <20050302111457.GB97448@pc5-179.lri.fr> <024601c51f33$eda69e40$0c00a8c0@artem> <57d7100005030221505d8ff1b2@mail.gmail.com> <00b101c51fd1$3fd448f0$0c00a8c0@artem> <1109851802.84539.10.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:30:15 +0300 Organization: IT Legion MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="koi8-r"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 cc: pete wright cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:24:37 -0000 Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:13 +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: >> pete wright wrote: >>> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin >>> wrote: >>>> Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) >>>> controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD >>>> 4.10 ? >>>> >>>> It is to be installed on a very old motherboard (1998) and two 40GB >>>> IDE driver (more or less modern ones, at least not used ones for >>>> sure). >>> >>> sorry I don't know of any really cheap one's off hand, altho I do >>> have experience with 3Ware RAID cards on 4.x. They seemed to work >>> well, and they are less expensive than proper SCSI cards...altho >>> slower. If cost really an issue would it be worth mirroring your >>> disks in software via VINUM? >> >> Well, i don't trust software raids. But 3ware is probably one of the >> most expensive raid 0,1 controllers. There must be something around >> 40$ which freebsd supports. Does anyone known any model? > > I'm currently using an Adaptec 1200A on > FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Fri Feb 4 02:43:22 GMT 2005 > root@zoidberg.xxxxxxx.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOIDBERG > > and it works without any problems. I'm using it in RAID1 mode and it > seems to be nice and fast. It's happy booting and running even with > one > of the pair removed, and is happy with rebuilding afterwards. > Although, > to be honest once this machine has booted it mainly only uses the > disks > for logging, so I'm not putting significant load in the controller. > > atapci0: port HighPoint HPT370 ? So this Adaptec 1200A is actually HPT370? I see you use it on 5.3-STABLE. Are the drivers built in or you downloaded them from the vendor's site? Artem