From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 22 03:35:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD0C106564A for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 03:35:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@midsummerdream.org) Received: from p3plsmtpa01-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa01-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [72.167.82.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 617718FC0A for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 03:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18008 invoked from network); 22 May 2011 03:08:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (75.57.136.216) by p3plsmtpa01-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (72.167.82.82) with ESMTP; 22 May 2011 03:08:58 -0000 Message-ID: <4DD87E49.1040309@midsummerdream.org> Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 22:08:57 -0500 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4DD8744E.7070006@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <4DD8744E.7070006@speakeasy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SATA Host Adapter Recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lists@midsummerdream.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 03:35:38 -0000 I have a Highpoint 4-port PCI-E 4x card in a server that has worked well for a few years. It's a bit pricey, but I've had no problems with it. Recently, I've gotten 3 Rosewill RC-218 cards because they're much cheaper and I don't need the RAID functionality on other cards. I'm building servers with them now, but FreeBSD recognizes the disks attached to them fine (so long as your on >= 8.2 and you add hw.hptrr.attach_generic=0 in /boot/loader.conf). I haven't tried hot-swapping any drives yet, but I'm assuming since it's SATA it should work fine. I should probably verify that soon. Rob On 5/21/11 9:26 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I am looking to get 2 sata host adapters. The mandatory requirements are > good freebsd support and hot swap capability. I plan to use gmirror. I > have discovered that my onboard chipsets don't support hot swap. > > The highpoint cards are rated highly on newegg. Are these good with > freebsd? > > Thanks, > Jason C. Wells > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >