From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 08:35:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A90D1065679; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:35:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@dannysplace.net) Received: from mail.dannysplace.net (mail.dannysplace.net [213.133.54.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC7C8FC12; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:35:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@dannysplace.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.dannysplace.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KC9QA-000GEg-Cn; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:35:06 +1000 Received: from 203-214-98-231.dyn.iinet.net.au (203-214-98-231.dyn.iinet.net.au [203.214.98.231]) by www.dannysplace.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:35:06 +1000 Message-ID: <20080627183506.atac8jmckkswcgc8@www.dannysplace.net> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:35:06 +1000 From: Danny Carroll To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <486450DB.4000907@dannysplace.net> <20080627040545.GA21856@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4864769C.4050002@dannysplace.net> <20080627053314.GA24239@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <48649424.4010700@dannysplace.net> <20080627073612.GA29122@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <48649AAD.4050806@dannysplace.net> <20080627075300.GA30448@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20080627075300.GA30448@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) / FreeBSD-6.1 X-Sender-Verify: SUCCEEDED (sender exists & accepts mail) X-Exim-Version: 4.68 (build at 19-Oct-2007 16:23:56) X-Date: 2008-06-27 18:35:06 X-Connected-IP: 127.0.0.1:55841 X-Message-Linecount: 43 X-Body-Linecount: 16 X-Message-Size: 1656 X-Body-Size: 570 X-Received-Count: 2 X-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: fbsd@dannysplace.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mail.dannysplace.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new server motherboard with SATA II X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:35:07 -0000 Quoting Jeremy Chadwick : > In that case, Promise cards are probably your best bet. They'll use the > ata(4) driver, and disks will show up as adX, and they're inexpensive. > Plus, the FreeBSD ATA author (sos@) has significant documentation on > them, so they're fairly well supported. That's a shame that there is no middle of the road... It does not seem a lot to ask for an IO card that can ease processing on the CPU for SATA II devices. Like I said I'd be happy to let FreeBSD handle the raid stuff because ZFS just looks so handy. -D