Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:44:07 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Scott Gerhardt <scott@g-it.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ... Message-ID: <20041105164153.Y21566@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <4A3387E2-2F68-11D9-92E4-000393801C60@g-it.ca> References: <20041105143116.A21566@ganymede.hub.org> <4A3387E2-2F68-11D9-92E4-000393801C60@g-it.ca>
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. > Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. > You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but all of > those onboard RAID controllers are not true hardware raid (Host raid) and > require special software drivers in the OS. You are much better off > purchasing a separate hardware raid controller such as the 3Ware 8006-2LP 2 > port, 3Ware 9500S-4LP 4 port, Adaptec 2410SA 4-port controllers. They do > true hardware raid and work with FreeBSD. > > Hope that answers your question. Unfortunately ... yup :) I was hoping to avoid the extra cost, but glad to have it confirmed ... thanks ... BTW, the motherboard/chassis is the Intel SR1400/SE7520JR2 ... which, re-looking at the specs negates the original question anyway :) it only holds 3 drives ... Thanks though ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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