Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:24:48 -0600 From: "Greg Malone" <missedtheboat18@hotmail.com> To: support@highpoint-tech.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: support for freeBSD Message-ID: <F553LUEM7RAluo3npvq0000548b@hotmail.com>
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Hi, i have recently been searching for an opensource alternative to windows as i have loaded Redhat 7.1 onto the secondary computer in my home and am amazed at the stability and capabilities of it.. Now in the past 6 months i have purchased an Abit KT7A RAID motherboard and have put the onboard HPT370 RAID controller to use on my two 20GB hard drives, running them in RAID 0 mode.. My big question regards wether freeBSD 4.2 will support the HPT370 RAID controller in RAID 0 mode nativly?? it says on the highpoint-tech.com website that "FreeBSD Operating System Includes Support for HPT370 Controllers Versions 4.1 and Later" now i checked freeBSD.org to see if the HPT370 RAID controller is fully supported, but didn't find anything that fully ansewered my questions. "The ata(4) driver now has support for tagged queueing, which is enabled by the ATA_ENABLE_TAGS option. It also supports the ServerWorks ROSB4 ATA33 chipset, the CMD 648 ATA66 and CMD 649 ATA100 chipsets, and the Cyrix 5530. It also has support for ATA "pseudo" RAID controllers, including the Promise Fasttrak and HighPoint HPT370 controllers." source: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.2R/notes.html This tells me that the 4.2 release of freeBSD supports the HPT370 RAID controller on my Abit KT7A motherboard. but not if it does so in RAID mode or simply in IDE mode like the linux kernel patch at http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ide.2.2.16.20000630.patch.bz2 I do not want to dismantle the RAID as i have become accustomed to the very fast speeds of RAID. But neither do i really want to stay with windows as it is becomming apparent that in many ways it is an inferior OS. Thank you for your help, i really appreciate anything you give me. God Bless <>< gR3g _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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