From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 17:20:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F010E16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:20:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14C243D53 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:20:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 53D19530C; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:20:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 3DD135308; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:19:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 499CC33CAA; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:19:58 +0200 (CEST) To: Anthony Carmody References: <019001c414c8$ce2f2f30$0200a8c0@carmoda.homeunix.org> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:19:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <019001c414c8$ce2f2f30$0200a8c0@carmoda.homeunix.org> (Anthony Carmody's message of "Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:30:15 +1000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:20:14 -0000 "Anthony Carmody" 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