Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:35:06 +0200 From: "Thomas Fischer" <tfischer@gmail.com> To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <6651c95f0705090435n633cc6c7ta00d4f841852ffc8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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Hi Rick, These are Maxtor 500GB drives purchased just a couple of weeks ago, so I assume that they are SATA-II capable... thanks and best regards, tom On 5/9/07, Rick C. Petty <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: > > > > Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both > > Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for me. Would > > anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would > be > > well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just something > > with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) supported > by > > FreeBSD (and Windows). > > SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or > similar would work: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 > > I think ataraid(4) supports this metadata format, otherwise if you haven't > bought a board yet, get any nForce board with SATA RAID0/1. > > -- Rick C. Petty >
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