Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:20:45 +0100 From: "Thomas Coppens" <thomas.coppens@advalvas.be> To: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <ravi@cow.org> Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD on a RAID0 array with onboard RAID Message-ID: <003001c1693a$7f7b4810$0202a8c0@alfa> In-Reply-To: <20011108183419.E97368@happy.cow.org>
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> > Well, the Promise chips are supposed to work... I took this from the > > FreeBSD website: > > > > <PASTE> > > 3.1 Disk Controllers IDE/ATA controllers ( ata(4) driver) > > - Promise ATA100 OEM chip (pdc20265) > > - Promise Fasttrak-33, -66, -100 > > - Promise Ultra-33, -66, -100 > > </PASTE> > > > > FreeBSD does find the array, it just gives a timeout... > > i got this same card and wanted to do a 0+1 config. > my biggest problem was to get the array to be stable. > secondary to that was my ide cable had to be custom > made (>18") and i was getting errors from that. after > many emails back and forth with the promise driver > author, i ended up buying 3ware's raid card on his > reccomendation. > > this card does true raid and has 4 (or 8) channels. it > also handles hot-swap with grace. > > it was 2.5x more expensive, but the saying "you get > what you pay for" holds true here. > > also, while the cards are supported, i believe that > support is just for a jbod configuration, not raid. Alright, I understand the RAID feature of the Promise chip isn't very well supported by FreeBSD. However, one thing I don't understand... some people say the card is unreliable, but I have it running perfectly on a Windows platform? Do you mean it's unreliable in general or when used with BSD? Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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