From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 23:13:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9E816A408 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 23:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AC413C46C for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 23:13:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so183152ugh for ; Tue, 08 May 2007 16:13:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=XeilK0jJpg6tcvf1zvpLOtn+tjouPjtWx0mc0DSN4a1KXeS0DiGpUIuIl/ULVjjw84Y+P/IebJxjDFVstUAmGCwjpYpDCXCyeG0K0nbIFc9Z5ueARid0N3kOT109VYyCSckFPyo8+qIOHsifk582rpwjNnqYeIBCPCUgGbizpdM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=RPiRKV5+d15J1XLm1Yy/r5es3SG/W2/NUoiEVUnZpuUxn6no/hul4cmjs4Ebqs1fA9d5kgrpLau/LIl1txMuM9nlt9XWFgfKIP2FjvV3SamUymjsaPBuCQGiXlpyzAtmj32qrcQZegTMYWhhiQxkduacKwqGsN7l0SAWNBToYW0= Received: by 10.82.184.2 with SMTP id h2mr12665630buf.1178664315253; Tue, 08 May 2007 15:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.179.4 with HTTP; Tue, 8 May 2007 15:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 00:45:14 +0200 From: "Thomas Fischer" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: sata raid card for FreeBSD? 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: Tue, 08 May 2007 23:13:59 -0000 Hello, I have a dual-boot FreeBSD 6.2/WinXP system that usually runs under FreeBSD, with the exception of when I'm working with and processing photos from my digital camera (Canon 400D/Rebel XTi). In order to store and manage my images, I've purchased two 500GB SATA disks, and would like to set them up in a RAID-1/mirroring configuration. Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for me. Would anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would be well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just something with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) supported by FreeBSD (and Windows). For info - current setup is running on an MSI K8N Neo4 motherboard with an AMD Athlon processor... Any advice, experience, suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance! tom