From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 1 14:41:44 2005 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 2FA8D16A4CE for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Sun, 1 May 2005 14:41:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.efacilitas.de (efacilitas.de [213.133.110.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9A543D4C for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Sun, 1 May 2005 14:41:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from eurystheus.local (port-212-202-39-77.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.39.77]) by mail.efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD81123A75; Sun, 1 May 2005 16:40:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1010E12B1B9; Sun, 1 May 2005 16:41:36 +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 82037-03; Sun, 1 May 2005 16:41:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.67] (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032C312B1B8; Sun, 1 May 2005 16:41:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4274EA9A.2060800@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 16:41:30 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stuart@aurora-solutions.co.uk References: <4274E348.7040909@aurora-solutions.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4274E348.7040909@aurora-solutions.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.com cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Serial ATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code <freebsd-stable.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>, <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>, <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 14:41:44 -0000 O'Reilly, Stuart wrote: > I'm in the process of building / upgrading a server and have chosen > FreeBSD to run it. One requirement is the ability to support RAID 1. > I am looking at adding a Serial ATA PCI card but i'm unsure which is > best. This is a low-budget suggestion: I have good experiences with RocketRAID 1520 and 1640. I'm running a 1640 with three SATA drives since one year without problems; it's just a little bit slow. Highpoint offers binary FreeBSD drivers for these controllers, but I think that people don't like this kind of support because Highpoint neglects it for older models and this dependency might be dangerous in future. Keep in mind: you'll get what you pay for. Regards Björn