From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 29 03:03:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C86016A4CE; Sat, 29 May 2004 03:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p4.roq.com (ns1.ecoms.com [207.44.130.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B07043D31; Sat, 29 May 2004 03:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@roq.com) Received: from roq.com (CPE-203-51-131-166.vic.bigpond.net.au [203.51.131.166]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2471B4C632; Sat, 29 May 2004 10:03:07 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <40B85FD9.7070607@roq.com> Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 20:03:05 +1000 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040520 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <32525686.20040518234834@obta.uw.edu.pl> <40B2A61A.5050006@roq.com> <1650099583.20040528015143@obta.uw.edu.pl> <40B6894F.7010906@roq.com> In-Reply-To: <40B6894F.7010906@roq.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org cc: Maksymilian Wrzesinski Subject: Re: raid backup X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 10:03:19 -0000 > Maksymilian Wrzesinski wrote: > >> Witaj Michael, >> >> W Twoim liście datowanym 25 maja 2004 (03:49:14) można przeczytać: >> >> MV> It seems that the the Nforce3 250gb from Nvidia has hardware based >> raid MV> built into their chipset for motherboards with a lot of top >> shelf >> i have checked some nforce2 ultra400 boards available at shops >> arround. it appears that those boards, like msi k7n2 Delta-ILSR, >> are only capable of having raid on SATA interface, because of >> only one IDE connector and two SATA's. will it support RAID based on >> one IDE and one SATA drive? >> > > > I believe the Nforce2 Ultra400 is the older version of the Nforce2 > chipset these motherboards would probably have an external taiwan based > RAID controller chip on the motherboard, you want the Nforce2 > Ultra400-Gb based motherboard which would have RAID based purely from > the nforce2 GB chipset. > > These GB based Nforce chipsets are brand spanking new, I have looked > around a bit on the web and I can only see 1 motherboard maker with a > motherboard out based on them and thats for the Nforce3 Gb version > http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=572 > > > Probably be a few more weeks or maybe a month or 2 before you can buy a > motherboard based on this chipset. Looking around on the net and FreeBSD archives it looks like if you want cheap ATA Raid now go with either a Intel motherboard with ICH5 or Promise SATA TX2/TX4 The performance of the Intel ICH5 looks very good with low CPU utilization (well from what benchmarks in running from MS windows suggest) I haven't found any clear documentation on what can and cant be used. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-March/006791.html http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_4.patch http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/relnotes-i386.html#DISKS http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-i386.html#AEN65 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware-i386.html#AEN34