From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 06:47:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC7CA1065670 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:47:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227528FC16 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au ([203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o196lDQZ054591 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:17:13 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:17:02 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2165989.FWfVg3I9F9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002091717.10985.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.639 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Charles Sprickman , Dan Langille Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:47:22 -0000 --nextPart2165989.FWfVg3I9F9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Charles Sprickman wrote: > For home use is the hot-swap option really needed? =A0Also, it seems > like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up > buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. =A0There > seem to be no decent add-on SATA cards that play nice with FreeBSD > other than that weird supermicro card that has to be physically > hacked about to fit. A friend of mine is building one and I couldn't get the Supermicro card=20 to work (the older version). It being a black box driver I couldn't see=20 what the problem was. I had good success with the onboard SATA ports (AHCI compliant), however=20 there are only 6 ports on the board I picked. Hopefully port multipliers will be fully working when I need some more=20 disks ;) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2165989.FWfVg3I9F9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLcQTu5ZPcIHs/zowRAuroAJ92cwLRfwmK32XJC8rrFGhWLE7FuACeNbeb KH9FMffd4qP4p/Akkz5BUjc= =59Ie -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2165989.FWfVg3I9F9--