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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>
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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=
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RAID1 and it works perfectly.

The only problem can be mapping the name to the PDC number although you sho=
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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=
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SATA ports and a PATA port (which matches the motherboard)

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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."
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