From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 17:58:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660DA16A4DD for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:58:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC7E43D5A for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:58:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so391886ugf for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:58:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dZcILCFFC0jA2KH+eEWA2ROVVtYFZuLzXE/9ut+/+I3WpzJT4SG/7s2jJtb+5EwhY3fHY33DgwpHbyg6M6UsIAXdCcEp/qpydTehX1vegfefdl6gGgm2b8yZWbAxT2fnCuxVy78We77tZiXh5bb5zWFjSER7O75+3EGjx8B3PXI= Received: by 10.78.116.19 with SMTP id o19mr4408890huc; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.11 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:58:37 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: pcarter@jhu.edu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise Technology RAID Controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:58:39 -0000 On 7/27/06, PATRICK CARTER wrote: > Hey all, > > I was looking at getting a hardware RAID controller (that supports RAID 5) for my system and I saw the FastTrak SX4100 from Promise Technology. I didn't see FreeBSD listed under their list of supported operating systems and I was wondering if anyone knew weather or not anyone knew if there exists a driver that works for FreeBSD. > Promise does not have a very good relationship with FreeBSD. It would be better if you found another vendor to work with. Areca HighPoint, and 3ware come to mind. Also stay way from Adaptec. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/