From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 13:26:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D925116A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:26:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yggdrasil.interstroom.nl (yggdrasil.interstroom.nl [80.85.129.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9392043D46 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:26:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from o.greve@axis.nl) Received: from ip127-180.introweb.nl ([80.65.127.180] helo=[192.168.1.30]) by yggdrasil with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CnzYz-0002Lf-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:26:29 +0100 Message-ID: <41E2828A.2030802@axis.nl> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:26:34 +0100 From: Olaf Greve User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41B857A0.2070906@leg.ensieg.inpg.fr> <41DE7DA3.8060206@axis.nl> <20050107132423.GA47763@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050107132423.GA47763@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Interstroom virusscan, please e-mail helpdesk@interstroom.nl for more information X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: Subject: Re: Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64 - and Promise RAID controllers??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:26:31 -0000 Hi, Last Friday I ranted: >In this case, time IS money, so that's why I'm trying to convince my >client to better spend that money (and my time) on simply buying a >supported hardware RAID controller, which really is a win-win situation >for both my client and myself. However, somehow I've not yet been able >to drive that argument home, so who knows...:/ Well, eureka, I did it! :) That is... I managed to convince the client to go hardware RAID. ;) They have a preference for the following controller: Promise FAST Trak S150TX4 But.................................. As far as I gather from the supported hardware list (fbsd 5.3, amd-64) at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-amd64.html#DISK It looks like this controller is not supported. :( To further compound matters, checking the docs on the controller suggests that, again, this is basically a software RAID solution (no CPU, no on-board memory, and a 66MHz PCI 2.2 32-bit interface): nice to complement their otherwise blazingly fast 64-bit AMD machine, duh! :((( Oh well, again I made a very strong suggestion to buy the Adaptec 2200s U320 SCSI RAID controller, but we'll see... :) Meanwhile, does anyone know of a good hardware SATA RAID controller capable of supporting RAID 10, and which is properly supported by FreeBSD 5.3 (amd64)? Any experiences? Any do's and dont's? Tnx & cheerz! Olafo