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From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com>
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Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD?
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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote:
> 
> 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).

SATA and not SATA II?  If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or
similar would work:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219

I think ataraid(4) supports this metadata format, otherwise if you haven't
bought a board yet, get any nForce board with SATA RAID0/1.

-- Rick C. Petty