From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 26 7:46: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA2A37B43C for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 07:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27640; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:45:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:45:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Thomas Stromberg Cc: FreeBSD-CURRENT Subject: Re: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions.. In-Reply-To: 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, Thomas Stromberg wrote: >Hopefully this thread will save the next poor soul who tries this. Indeed. >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 >:) Currently the only IDE RAID cards supported are the 3Ware ones. For a list of supported RAID hardware one should always check: http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/index.html >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? You could turn off the fake RAID in the BIOS, use it strictly as an ATA100 controller and use the vinum software RAID driver to do some real RAID. Info on that is available from: http://www.vinumvm.org/ Another alternative, and the one that I have been using, is to order one of the Arena series external IDE RAID boxes from raidweb.com. They're pretty cool little pieces of hardware. I'm also using IBM 75GXPs with mine. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message