From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 22: 6:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E023D37B401 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 22:06:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1665kX20078; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 01:05:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: robert@kedoin.com (Robert Kedoin) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID motherboards ? Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 01:05:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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