From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 26 5:47:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from barracuda.aquarium.rtci.com (barracuda.aquarium.rtci.com [208.11.247.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CB737B424; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 05:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from barracuda (barracuda [208.11.247.5]) by barracuda.aquarium.rtci.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA19649; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 08:47:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 08:47:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Stromberg X-Sender: tstromberg@barracuda.aquarium.rtci.com To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.dk Subject: Re: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions.. In-Reply-To: <200008260724.AAA00625@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > This is not an "IDE RAID" controller. It's an IDE controller with some > lame "RAID" software in the BIOS. We don't support this. Hopefully this thread will save the next poor soul who tries this. Just to put the final nail in the coffin.. I went ahead and installed on an old WDMA2 drive of mine, and put /var and /usr on what hopefully was a striped RAID. Well, I pulled the second drive offline, and.. it still booted up beautifully. So the striping in bios on the HPT-370 is indeed meaningless. C'est la vie. Now the question is, what ATA-100 RAID solutions are there that are fully supported? I'd guess the Promise board, but the last time I guessed (err.. last week), I got a supported chipset with an unsupported feature :) Just so I don't go do anything stupid, anyone secretly working on drivers for this behind our backs, or is it as good as junk? BTW, these IBM 75GXP drives off of the HPT-370 are amazingly fast for IDE. It was fast enough to fool me into thinking the striping might have been working. Ahh, the delusions hope brings. / Thomas > > For the buildbox here, I decided to go ahead with Soren's ATA-100 RAID > > suggestion, and bought an Abit KT7-RAID motherboard, which has an onboard > > Highpoint HPT-370 ATA-100 RAID. I'm using two 15G IBM 75GX drives on it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message