From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 12:48:46 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 7982A16A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:48:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [82.68.196.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C816E43D2D for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:48:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F20E171D4; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:48:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24093-01; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:48:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 80) id A79A5171D2; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:48:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from egg.helenmarks.co.uk ([192.168.15.3]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user dom) by www.helenmarks.co.uk with HTTP; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:48:37 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <49336.192.168.15.3.1109854117.squirrel@www.helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <00b101c51fd1$3fd448f0$0c00a8c0@artem> References: <20050302104641.44708.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <20050302111457.GB97448@pc5-179.lri.fr> <024601c51f33$eda69e40$0c00a8c0@artem> <57d7100005030221505d8ff1b2@mail.gmail.com> <00b101c51fd1$3fd448f0$0c00a8c0@artem> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:48:37 -0000 (GMT) From: "Dominic Marks" To: "Artem Kuchin" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: By ClamAV 0.80 cc: pete wright cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:48:46 -0000 Artem Kuchin said: > pete wright wrote: >> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin >> wrote: >>> Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) >>> controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD 4.10 ? >>> >>> It is to be installed on a very old motherboard (1998) and two 40GB >>> IDE driver (more or less modern ones, at least not used ones for >>> sure). >> >> sorry I don't know of any really cheap one's off hand, altho I do have >> experience with 3Ware RAID cards on 4.x. They seemed to work well, >> and they are less expensive than proper SCSI cards...altho slower. If >> cost really an issue would it be worth mirroring your disks in >> software via VINUM? > > Well, i don't trust software raids. But 3ware is probably one of the most > expensive raid 0,1 controllers. There must be something around 40$ which > freebsd supports. Does anyone known any model? Highpoint Rocket RAID ATA-133 which I found in the catalogue of a UK computer parts retailer seems to be what you want. 2 channel ATA-133 which does RAID 0/1 (don't know if it does it all on the card). It's slightly over your price target of $40 though, from this retailer its about £60. http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/r133.htm I have a similar SATA controller which from Highpoint which seems to work pretty well. > -- > Regards, > Artem Kuchin > IT Legion Ltd. > Moscow, Russia > www.itlegion.ru > matrix@itlegion.ru > +7 095 232-0338 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Dominic