From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 6 10:30:18 2002 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 B6BDF37B401; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:30:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.trigger.net (ns.trigger.net [204.50.18.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3EC743ECD; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikej@trigger.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.trigger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5602230915; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:30:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from mike (wettoast.org [204.50.18.204]) by mail.trigger.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D8A0530913; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:30:06 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Jakubik" To: "Christopher Schulte" , "Andrew Stesin" , Cc: Subject: RE: Q: FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT MB (Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:30:10 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20021206113547.0433e118@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have several FreeBSD machines with onboard Promise and HighPoint ATA RAID controllers, and they all work perfectly. You should be OK with the Intel MB. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christopher Schulte Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:41 PM To: Andrew Stesin; questions@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT MB (Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID) At 05:36 PM 9/14/2002 +0300, Andrew Stesin wrote: >Hello people, > >Anyone tried FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT motherboard? > >Especially interesting is how an onboard Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID >controller works with FreeBSD - or better to say, does it work at all? >What are the caveates with it, if any? How RAID configuration works? I had the same question (on 4.7) regarding the pdc20267. There were no formal replies, so I asked Andrew privately. His response is below, printed with permission, in case others search the archives for this answer: Thanks Andrew. --reply start-- >Hi Christopher, > >I got a bunch of replies via private email (people think that it's so >obvious that doesn't worth any further public discussion). > >Everyone says that "yes it works perfectly". > >Unfortunately, I personally wasn't able to test this, because my plans to >buy this exact board changed with an appearance of new 845 chipset (533 >MHz FSB, DDR 333 etc.) and I got a modern one without RAID (now I'm a >happy user of vinum (1)). > >Regards, >Andrew --reply end-- -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message