Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 20:03:05 +1000 From: Michael Vince <michael@roq.com> Cc: Maksymilian Wrzesinski <mcson@obta.uw.edu.pl> Subject: Re: raid backup Message-ID: <40B85FD9.7070607@roq.com> In-Reply-To: <40B6894F.7010906@roq.com> References: <32525686.20040518234834@obta.uw.edu.pl> <40B2A61A.5050006@roq.com> <1650099583.20040528015143@obta.uw.edu.pl> <40B6894F.7010906@roq.com>
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> Maksymilian Wrzesinski wrote: > >> Witaj Michael, >> >> W Twoim liście datowanym 25 maja 2004 (03:49:14) można przeczytać: >> >> MV> It seems that the the Nforce3 250gb from Nvidia has hardware based >> raid MV> built into their chipset for motherboards with a lot of top >> shelf >> i have checked some nforce2 ultra400 boards available at shops >> arround. it appears that those boards, like msi k7n2 Delta-ILSR, >> are only capable of having raid on SATA interface, because of >> only one IDE connector and two SATA's. will it support RAID based on >> one IDE and one SATA drive? >> > > > I believe the Nforce2 Ultra400 is the older version of the Nforce2 > chipset these motherboards would probably have an external taiwan based > RAID controller chip on the motherboard, you want the Nforce2 > Ultra400-Gb based motherboard which would have RAID based purely from > the nforce2 GB chipset. > > These GB based Nforce chipsets are brand spanking new, I have looked > around a bit on the web and I can only see 1 motherboard maker with a > motherboard out based on them and thats for the Nforce3 Gb version > http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=572 > > > Probably be a few more weeks or maybe a month or 2 before you can buy a > motherboard based on this chipset. Looking around on the net and FreeBSD archives it looks like if you want cheap ATA Raid now go with either a Intel motherboard with ICH5 or Promise SATA TX2/TX4 The performance of the Intel ICH5 looks very good with low CPU utilization (well from what benchmarks in running from MS windows suggest) I haven't found any clear documentation on what can and cant be used. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-March/006791.html http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_4.patch http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/relnotes-i386.html#DISKS http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-i386.html#AEN65 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware-i386.html#AEN34
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