From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 4 17:15:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FE716A469 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:15:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3527513C478 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:15:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from mail.tcbug.org (mail.tcbug.org [208.42.70.163]) by cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443248216; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:15:47 -0600 (CST) Received: from roadrash (c-76-17-221-93.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [76.17.221.93]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.tcbug.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 852606D9E29; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:15:46 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:15:44 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47A732BC.2090204@ariel.ru> In-Reply-To: <47A732BC.2090204@ariel.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart17200343.XOFFLvAILH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200802041115.50984.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Leonid Satanovsky Subject: Re: SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:15:48 -0000 --nextPart17200343.XOFFLvAILH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 04 February 2008 09:43:56 am Leonid Satanovsky wrote: > Hello, people! > Does anybody know whether the SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M > motherboard is supported by FreeBSD 6.3 ... or 7.0? > ------------------------------ > We are choosing a motherboard for a low-end mail server (this is a small > company with lots of mail,... and the host will also serve as Internet > gateway... that's the strange configuration -) ) ) > ------------------------------ > Thanks in advance! > Best regards, > --les My experience with the onboard BIOS RAID of various motherboards has been=20 horrific. I'd suggest one of two paths, depending on the RAID configuratio= n=20 you're going for. If you strictly doing mirroring check out gmirror. If you are planning on= =20 some sort of striping and want boot support think about populating one of t= he=20 8x PCI-e slots in the board with a RAID controller. I've had good luck wit= h=20 the highpoint 23xx and 3ware 9650s, I'm sure there are other well supported= =20 options as well. If you really need boot support and striping but costs are so touchy that y= ou=20 can't afford a RAID controllre I'd boot the thing off USB and use=20 gstripe+gmirror before I used the motherboard RAID. It's that bad. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB --nextPart17200343.XOFFLvAILH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHp0hGJvkB8SevrssRAhapAJ0RHJQjstsfibiHVMaOgdwso/wkTwCfYF7w A+aUAQGDY9NMeLhJDxFMy7w= =oIgj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart17200343.XOFFLvAILH--