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Date:      Tue,  6 Apr 2004 10:30:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Jorn Argelo" <jorn@wcborstel.nl>
To:        savage@savage.za.org
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SATA
Message-ID:  <20040406083028.D6A3717067@www.wcborstel.nl>
In-Reply-To: <001201c41ae5$549fd390$0a01a8c0@savage.za.org>

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It's not in the FreeBSD Hardware Notes for 4.9 and 5.2.1. But if it's
completely hardware based as Adaptec claims, then it might work. Though
I am not sure if FreeBSD can handle 2 TB of disk space. I don't think
that fsck will like such high amount of disk space either.

Cheers,

Jorn

On 4/6/2004, "Chris Knipe" <savage@savage.za.org> wrote:

>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 Fr=
eeBSD (4.8/4.9), and if it is, will a ufs file system cope with a 2TB, or big=
ger 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/w=
riting to and from that partition (samba mainly).
>
>>From what I can see at Adaptec, this card is COMPLETELY hardware based, whi=
ch tells me that any OS will see the RAID Array as a single hard drive, and t=
herefore 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 d=
o not have the patience :)
>
>Regards,
>Me
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