From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 05:51:08 2005 Return-Path: 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 4D79016A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 05:51:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E953043D41 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 05:51:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so295326rnf for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:51:07 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=hOz2Md12soE+3KpOQrTOK3PjeO5BBMcA0EeHGboofgCuR632ZSX49LVyhLPfjGu4YJsbta4+I1aGPr4jzlmye7jMXIONfGMD4T/HDs67dyZV68i9iJRrut2EbOMY9xqV/kyuTv2lMo7BIXnzgF5mJFgmIjCK+qj6J30OW2Qglj8= Received: by 10.38.78.70 with SMTP id a70mr4521rnb; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:50:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.14.51 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:50:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <57d7100005030221505d8ff1b2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:50:41 -0800 From: pete wright To: Artem Kuchin In-Reply-To: <024601c51f33$eda69e40$0c00a8c0@artem> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050302104641.44708.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <20050302111457.GB97448@pc5-179.lri.fr> <024601c51f33$eda69e40$0c00a8c0@artem> cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: pete wright List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 05:51:08 -0000 On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: > Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) > controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD 4.10 ? > > It is to be installed on a very old motherboard (1998) and two 40GB IDE > driver (more or less modern ones, at least not used ones for sure). sorry I don't know of any really cheap one's off hand, altho I do have experience with 3Ware RAID cards on 4.x. They seemed to work well, and they are less expensive than proper SCSI cards...altho slower. If cost really an issue would it be worth mirroring your disks in software via VINUM? -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group