From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 13:28:14 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 EA94616A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:28:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F5A43D46 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:28:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy.york.ac.uk [144.32.226.160]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j23DSAYX022854; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:28:10 GMT Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j23DSAGi085387; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:28:10 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j23DS9ZA085386; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:28:09 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Artem Kuchin In-Reply-To: <01ab01c51fec$c1b00b50$0c00a8c0@artem> References: <20050302104641.44708.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <20050302111457.GB97448@pc5-179.lri.fr> <024601c51f33$eda69e40$0c00a8c0@artem> <57d7100005030221505d8ff1b2@mail.gmail.com> <00b101c51fd1$3fd448f0$0c00a8c0@artem> <1109851802.84539.10.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <01ab01c51fec$c1b00b50$0c00a8c0@artem> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:28:09 +0000 Message-Id: <1109856489.85219.2.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk cc: pete wright cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:28:15 -0000 On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 15:30 +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: > Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:13 +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: > >> pete wright wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin > >>> wrote: > >>>> Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) > >>>> controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD > >>>> 4.10 ? > >>>> > >>>> It is to be installed on a very old motherboard (1998) and two 40GB > >>>> IDE driver (more or less modern ones, at least not used ones for > >>>> sure). > >>> > >>> sorry I don't know of any really cheap one's off hand, altho I do > >>> have experience with 3Ware RAID cards on 4.x. They seemed to work > >>> well, and they are less expensive than proper SCSI cards...altho > >>> slower. If cost really an issue would it be worth mirroring your > >>> disks in software via VINUM? > >> > >> Well, i don't trust software raids. But 3ware is probably one of the > >> most expensive raid 0,1 controllers. There must be something around > >> 40$ 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? I'm just using the ATA driver built-in to 5.3. It seems to work fine for me. Gavin