From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 16:39:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE8E16A4CF for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 16:39:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [82.68.196.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F86343D41 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 16:39:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1601707E; Mon, 2 May 2005 17:39:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29261-02; Mon, 2 May 2005 17:39:39 +0100 (BST) Received: from egg.helenmarks.co.uk (egg.helenmarks.co.uk [192.168.15.3]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7F81707B; Mon, 2 May 2005 17:39:39 +0100 (BST) From: Dominic Marks Organization: GoodforBusiness.co.uk To: stuart@aurora-solutions.co.uk Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 17:40:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4274E348.7040909@aurora-solutions.co.uk> <4274EA9A.2060800@cs.tu-berlin.de> <427653BF.2090104@aurora-solutions.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <427653BF.2090104@aurora-solutions.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505021740.18676.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: By ClamAV 0.80 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Serial ATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 16:39:47 -0000 On Monday 02 May 2005 17:22, O'Reilly, Stuart wrote: > %< ----------- snipped > > > I have good experiences with RocketRAID 1520 and 1640. I'm running a > > 1640 with three SATA drives since one year without problems; it's just a > > little bit slow. Highpoint offers binary FreeBSD drivers for these > > controllers, but I think that people don't like this kind of support > > because Highpoint neglects it for older models and this dependency might > > be dangerous in future. Keep in mind: you'll get what you pay for. > > > > Regards > > Bj=F6rn > > Can someone just answer a quick question. One of the suggestions > mentioned was the Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 controller which is a low > cost solutions however support for FreeBSD stopped at v5.1. > > However, scrolling down the list of driver software for the RocketRAID > 1520, Highpoint offer the option of downloading the Linux Open Source > Driver and compiling it yourself. To quote the website: > > "Support Linux kernel version 2.2.x to 2.6.x on x86 and x86_64 platform." > > Would this be a suitable option since (as I understand it), FreeBSD is > i386. =46reeBSD has an i386 version, but it isn't only available for i386. See:=20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.= html Regarding the driver for Linux: Often the guts of drivers distributed in this way are binary and the interf= ace=20 which brings the binary and the kernel together is all that is publicly=20 accessible. You will (quite literally) have more luck getting a binary=20 Windows driver to work on FreeBSD than a binary Linux driver. > Sorry if I sound like i'm trying to get blood from a stone. ;) Be wary of cheap controllers which burden your system with extra work inste= ad=20 of less. > Stuart, > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" HTH, =2D-=20 Dominic GoodforBusiness.co.uk I.T. Services for SMEs in the UK.