From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 11:35:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6D816A526 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 11:35:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCB213C4AE for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 11:35:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so91910mue for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 04:35:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=uhEP65bSvE9IEkP92iLvEDB9ayhjbYQgb96TiW98F0Hd2XvCBZgo093luYlcqtunUqvmJiZDMN9UxUIjrFCrb1fwzsJn5uJ7XM+VvPPgnLCUC+w9tDHMjjAmCgh5ESsyMC4tNC19CkbDZ/JOciOKM7B3GzWZPDRfS1vH34k0kBo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=oacASurwxIcZ2+yjPnq+ZW/7TThVSsxV8zQ0gGQu7mbYeyyh4HsNtXAOLKdNd/QNLXITi3Ey5YsxsWXwwEZm9JGYpCN4E72jUlIFawQqkdVeqlXosOKxlIzCjmTnzW8x2i95ak2sGe7Ht4WGoEWZJ2DnSCvCil9sZy/8ap6P668= Received: by 10.82.151.14 with SMTP id y14mr793651bud.1178710508368; Wed, 09 May 2007 04:35:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.179.4 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2007 04:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6651c95f0705090435n633cc6c7ta00d4f841852ffc8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:35:06 +0200 From: "Thomas Fischer" To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com In-Reply-To: <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:35:11 -0000 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 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 >