From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 23 22:50:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C8316A41C for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 22:50:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.efacilitas.de (efacilitas.de [213.133.110.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725B843D48 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 22:50:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from eurystheus.local (port-212-202-39-61.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.39.61]) by mail.efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACA41239CA; Tue, 24 May 2005 00:49:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9516512B09A; Tue, 24 May 2005 00:49:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eurystheus.local ([192.168.1.67]) by localhost (eurystheus.locaL [192.168.1.67]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54280-02; Tue, 24 May 2005 00:49:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.67] (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C85212B08A; Tue, 24 May 2005 00:49:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42925DFB.3080802@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 00:49:31 +0200 From: Bjoern Koenig User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arax References: <193219855.20050523210236@arax.md> In-Reply-To: <193219855.20050523210236@arax.md> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HighPoint RocketRAID 1640 support 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, 23 May 2005 22:50:33 -0000 Cezar Fistik wrote: > I saw on the manufacturer's site that this board is supported under > FreeBSD, but the hptmv man page says that only 182x boards are > supported. The hptmv driver works only with RR182x and i386. > Can anyone confirm a successful instalation of 1640 on > FreeBSD? I do. You can use the binary drivers from Highpoint's website. Currently the RR1640 works fine for me with FreeBSD 5.4 and RAID 5. Until January 2004, I had some minor problems with FreeBSD's *built-in* support for the Highpoint chipsets using SATA hard disk drives. I don't know if it works properly now; I guess it does not. Björn