From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 8 15:35: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from happy.cow.org (happy.cow.org [198.88.20.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3DC637B419 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:34:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ravi@localhost) by happy.cow.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) id fA8NYK856415; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:34:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:34:19 -0500 From: ravi pina To: Thomas Coppens Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a RAID0 array with onboard RAID Message-ID: <20011108183419.E97368@happy.cow.org> Reply-To: ravi@cow.org References: <004901c1688e$a99b3350$0202a8c0@alfa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004901c1688e$a99b3350$0202a8c0@alfa>; from thomas.coppens@advalvas.be on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:50:42PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:50:42PM +0100, Thomas Coppens said at one point in time: > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > Van: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > hardware@FreeBSD.ORG] Namens Erin Fortenberry > > Verzonden: donderdag 8 november 2001 20:14 > > Aan: 'Thomas Coppens'; freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > > Onderwerp: RE: Installing FreeBSD on a RAID0 array with onboard RAID > > > > This is because FreeBSD does not (as far as I know) support RAID on > the > > promise cards/chips. > > > > If this has changed I'd really like to know. > > Well, the Promise chips are supposed to work... I took this from the > FreeBSD website: > > > 3.1 Disk Controllers IDE/ATA controllers ( ata(4) driver) > - Promise ATA100 OEM chip (pdc20265) > - Promise Fasttrak-33, -66, -100 > - Promise Ultra-33, -66, -100 > > > FreeBSD does find the array, it just gives a timeout... i got this same card and wanted to do a 0+1 config. my biggest problem was to get the array to be stable. secondary to that was my ide cable had to be custom made (>18") and i was getting errors from that. after many emails back and forth with the promise driver author, i ended up buying 3ware's raid card on his reccomendation. this card does true raid and has 4 (or 8) channels. it also handles hot-swap with grace. it was 2.5x more expensive, but the saying "you get what you pay for" holds true here. also, while the cards are supported, i believe that support is just for a jbod configuration, not raid. -r -- echo "send pgp key" | mail ravi@cow.org "I am." is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message