From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 01:42:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D50106567E for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 01:42:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olihc17@yahoo.com) Received: from web53808.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web53808.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.203]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C49A8FC19 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 01:42:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olihc17@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 30246 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Nov 2008 01:42:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=PPEpjZJzWGw0ihmiuGBWxUsC0RF1xytWBkH1BN3qHLJujbveNRkPDm0SA/vjrb/sxu7PSajc47Sl0R++iDtkf2/3CAMWf10KNEOczZySV/aOi5XiySptplc8ipC9GZ//M9R/zgfHFWHkHVGv8N0EgolcgmKMwv8aeyudwTc0jQE=; X-YMail-OSG: 3oPHKG8VM1mJunQjQ.EOp8Xibqwljxf1J3ngEbxM0IHBTLLVDJrFQtvemidaXkMsyyzPgCbYQy3v6MoLBVNNiQjWvpl3VR9akbRjCw6__ZrjqhIiPauBhJqioSbcUaH6OU4QzG8MnQZEJvJQA1N32sUs3jh3OCAKUU0_HDJXJHUuBZ.1H.uanyHI_imV Received: from [121.96.209.86] by web53808.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:42:42 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1155.20 YahooMailWebService/0.7.247.3 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:42:42 -0800 (PST) From: chilo To: Jeremy Chadwick MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <270648.30039.qm@web53808.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:04:13 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard Recommendation for Freebsd 7.0 32-bit or 64-bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:42:43 -0000 yep im talking about that raid. ok jeremy i'll go with the software raid thank you very much. ________________________________ From: Jeremy Chadwick To: chilo Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 9:10:21 AM Subject: Re: Motherboard Recommendation for Freebsd 7.0 32-bit or 64-bit On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 04:17:06PM -0800, chilo wrote: > Has anyone used an Intel board with raid compatibility? If I can't push hardware I guess I'm off to using software raid. many thanks. What is "RAID compatibility"? I have a feeling you're talking about BIOS-based Intel MatrixRAID, in which case, **do not use it**. There are bugs in the ata(4) layer which will bite you badly, including data loss even in RAID-1 situations. http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/ATA_issues_and_troubleshooting Stick with OS-based software RAID. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |