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Lo all,

How much of SATA is supported in FreeBSD??  A couple of questions if I =
may....

Firstly, is the Adaptec 2819SA (8-Port SATA RAID Controller) supported =
by FreeBSD (4.8/4.9), and if it is, will a ufs file system cope with a =
2TB, or bigger partition (8 x 250GB SATA).  I then also presume that if =
the OS supports the partition, I should have no problems in regards to =
applications reading/writing to and from that partition (samba mainly).

>From what I can see at Adaptec, this card is COMPLETELY hardware based, =
which tells me that any OS will see the RAID Array as a single hard =
drive, and therefore it should make very little difference whether or =
not it is supported.  But yeah, with 2TB, I'd rather not take chances...

The alternative is to build up a new Win2003 Server, and for that I =
really do not have the patience :)

Regards,
Me