From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 6 9:41:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7045337B401; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:41:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from monster.schulte.org (monster.schulte.org [209.134.156.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B570343E4A; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by monster.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1571FEBE; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:41:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from raja.nospam.schulte.org (carpnod.schulte.org [209.134.156.200]) by monster.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D18ED1FE68; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:41:13 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20021206113547.0433e118@localhost> X-Sender: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:40:32 -0600 To: Andrew Stesin , questions@freebsd.org From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: Q: FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT MB (Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID) Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020914173126.L49905-100000@chour.hostmaster.net.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 on monster.schulte.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:36 PM 9/14/2002 +0300, Andrew Stesin wrote: >Hello people, > >Anyone tried FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT motherboard? > >Especially interesting is how an onboard Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID >controller works with FreeBSD - or better to say, does it work at all? >What are the caveates with it, if any? How RAID configuration works? I had the same question (on 4.7) regarding the pdc20267. There were no formal replies, so I asked Andrew privately. His response is below, printed with permission, in case others search the archives for this answer: Thanks Andrew. --reply start-- >Hi Christopher, > >I got a bunch of replies via private email (people think that it's so >obvious that doesn't worth any further public discussion). > >Everyone says that "yes it works perfectly". > >Unfortunately, I personally wasn't able to test this, because my plans to >buy this exact board changed with an appearance of new 845 chipset (533 >MHz FSB, DDR 333 etc.) and I got a modern one without RAID (now I'm a >happy user of vinum (1)). > >Regards, >Andrew --reply end-- -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message