Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:28:54 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Brian Szymanski <ski@mediamatters.org> Subject: Re: well-supported SATA RAID card? Message-ID: <200603102229.01148.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1219.68.49.189.193.1141981287.squirrel@68.49.189.193> References: <1219.68.49.189.193.1141981287.squirrel@68.49.189.193>
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--nextPart1188165.GrJUZcLoH1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 10 March 2006 19:31, Brian Szymanski wrote: > After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's > rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any > SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with > utilities that let you manage while the OS is running that folks have had > good luck with? I've been happy with the megaraid series on linux at my > job, but I'm wondering if the management utilities are there on freebsd, > etc. I believe most Promise hardware is supported. I use a "Promise PDC20378 SATA150 controller" built into my motherboard for= =20 RAID1 and it works perfectly. The only problem can be mapping the name to the PDC number although you sho= uld=20 be able to find it if you dig in the data sheet. I believe the chip I am using is in the "FastTrak S150 TX2plus" - it has 2= =20 SATA ports and a PATA port (which matches the motherboard) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1188165.GrJUZcLoH1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEEWoF5ZPcIHs/zowRAnNdAJ964XIx4ynuBWkzXmgmOWwsfmzTAwCdEABy JFI2X3vXvYO38KmOcr10ppY= =gPHq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1188165.GrJUZcLoH1--
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