Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 01:05:46 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: robert@kedoin.com (Robert Kedoin) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID motherboards ? Message-ID: <ru4v7t8hsgl0svr822uj3qeoavai6to13k@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <SEN.981410396.417088248@news.sentex.net> References: <SEN.981410396.417088248@news.sentex.net>
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On 5 Feb 2001 16:59:56 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you = wrote: >I am thinking about building my own small server at home and looking to = use >RAID in the server. A friend strongly urges me to use FreeBSD in this = new >machine. > >As I begin selecting components, I was wondering if FreeBSD supports the >hardware RAID implementations on some motherboards. If it does, can you = tell >me which mboards are supported ? If not, I'll just steer clear of the = boards >with built-in RAID since I won't be able to use it in FreeBSD. Apart from the SCSI versions, the built in IDE RAID controllers are very much software/driver dependent for their RAID functionality. If you are looking for low cost RAID, get your self a 3ware IDE controller. They = work very well, have excellent driver support and are quite fast and inexpensive. www.3ware.com ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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