From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 09:07:44 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 ADD3416A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:07:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from osiris.itlegion.ru (osiris.itlegion.ru [84.21.226.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B1443D2D for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:07:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) Received: from artem ([192.168.0.12]) by osiris.itlegion.ru (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id j2397XGS008207; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:07:33 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) X-AntiVirus: Checked by Dr.Web [version: 4.32b, engine: 4.32b, virus records: 66749, updated: 2.03.2005] Message-ID: <00b101c51fd1$3fd448f0$0c00a8c0@artem> From: "Artem Kuchin" To: "pete wright" References: <20050302104641.44708.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <20050302111457.GB97448@pc5-179.lri.fr> <024601c51f33$eda69e40$0c00a8c0@artem> <57d7100005030221505d8ff1b2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:13:18 +0300 Organization: IT Legion MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:07:44 -0000 pete wright wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin > wrote: >> Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) >> controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD 4.10 ? >> >> It is to be installed on a very old motherboard (1998) and two 40GB >> IDE driver (more or less modern ones, at least not used ones for >> sure). > > sorry I don't know of any really cheap one's off hand, altho I do have > experience with 3Ware RAID cards on 4.x. They seemed to work well, > and they are less expensive than proper SCSI cards...altho slower. If > cost really an issue would it be worth mirroring your disks in > software via VINUM? Well, i don't trust software raids. But 3ware is probably one of the most expensive raid 0,1 controllers. There must be something around 40$ which freebsd supports. Does anyone known any model? -- Regards, Artem Kuchin IT Legion Ltd. Moscow, Russia www.itlegion.ru matrix@itlegion.ru +7 095 232-0338