From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 02:38:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B38416A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 02:38:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from googl3meister@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE68343D48 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 02:38:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from googl3meister@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so68240wra for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:38:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ipjrr1A/4ZY2j2F9udzA3gTvKmXgAVnluKBDcQD2e371R4SAqowdKhBZMiaihIDs3xHPV5tkR5hkfUlQB+NVNHNW7erTI4yAT0NKrJD/xIlRiIe4LwGWM0DZvgI259EDe6cQa+72T7AmD5k0KB/bzfanuseHtOg+nUb/Oz81iBY= Received: by 10.54.40.52 with SMTP id n52mr4270754wrn; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.31.69 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8f55402905060719386f941039@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:38:25 +1000 From: =?WINDOWS-1252?B?lSCV?= To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200506071749.28840.groot@kde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050604234246.G69694@zoraida.natserv.net> <200506050949.54551.groot@kde.org> <20050607113123.R97707@zoraida.natserv.net> <200506071749.28840.groot@kde.org> Subject: Re: Which motherboard for RAID in AMD64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: =?WINDOWS-1252?B?lSCV?= List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:38:26 -0000 On 6/8/05, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 17:32, you wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > > Via KT800's embedded RAID which shows up as atapci1: > > controller> works as a RAID controller; configure the RAID array befo= re > > > installation and use ar0 as the device to install FreeBSD to. > > > > > > Promise 20378 RAID which shows up as atapci0: > > controller> works as a RAID controller; same deal. > > > > > > My K8V has both of these controllers, > > > > I am a little confused. Do you have one of those onboard and the second= as > > a pci card? >=20 > Lots of motherboards have two RAID controllers on board. See, the VIA KT8= 00 > chipset has one and some vendors add a second, like a promise, for added > value. 4 SATA connectors on the motherboard, on two different controllers= . >=20 > > > my Gigabyte board only the VIA. > > > > Which model? >=20 > Mmm, you could look that up in the motherboard list, but it's the GA-K8VT= 800. > That one has only the VIA embedded RAID. >=20 > -- > These are your friends - Adem > GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 Just to confirm, the Promise controller on the Asus A8V Deluxe works also - I disabled the other onboard VIA SATA RAID and just use the Promise for mirrored drives - works a treat. Configured at first boot and installed directly to ar0. Have split and rebuilt the world (as i386) just for testing. Thinking of a stripe on the VIA later maybe for swap. Have to say it's kinda neat to have 2 onboard raid even if only a 'consumer' level (no hot swap, battery backup), but the price is definitely right. --cheers gm