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Subject: Re: ATA Raid cards
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:42:25 +0200, "Mathieu Arnold" <mat@FreeBSD.org>
said:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm in a need of such a card, but I can't find out which cards are only
> doing raid under windows with specific drivers, and which cards are doing
> real hard raid.

Depends what you want to do with it.  My experience is with my own
desktop machines for RAID-0 or RAID-1, and for those the Promise cards
(or equivalent onboard chips in my case) have never given me a problem
beyond having to wait a few days for a bit of tweaking in -CURRENT once
in a great while.  These particular Promise chips don't do "real hard
raid" AFAIK, but thanks to Soeren Schmidt they work fine in FreeBSD.

Jud