Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:19:58 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Anthony Carmody <anthony@carmoda.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE RAID Message-ID: <xzpk711ols1.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <019001c414c8$ce2f2f30$0200a8c0@carmoda.homeunix.org> (Anthony Carmody's message of "Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:30:15 %2B1000") References: <019001c414c8$ce2f2f30$0200a8c0@carmoda.homeunix.org>
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"Anthony Carmody" <anthony@carmoda.com> writes: > does anyone have any experience with onboard IDE RAID set-ups with > freeBSD 5.X? > my hardware vendor has an Intel mainboard with an on-board Promise* > Technology SATA150TX4 4-Port Serial ATA RAID controller (PDC20319) > i love to know if it'd work. Works great (have one here), but unless you're going to boot from it it's a waste of money since the striping / mirrorring is done in software anyway. The extra price is for the RAID-capable BIOS that lets you boot from an array, once you've loaded the kernel, the ata driver does all the heavy lifting. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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