Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:18:01 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RocketRaid133 Message-ID: <200202112218.g1BMI1V24265@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020211160732.04c12890@marble.sentex.ca>
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It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: > >We already support the hpt372, and I've just added support for the > >hpt374 to -current. > > STABLE doesnt yet see it as an AR capable device. But the KLD provided by > them at > http://www.highpoint-tech.com/FreeBSD_v13_370_372.zip > > works exactly as advertised. I just installed it with the 4.5R ISO and all > worked well using RAID1 and RAID0. The Raid 1 performance was OK, but not > as great an improvement as the 3ware shows. I seem to recall a noticeable > difference between a single drive on UDMA 66, versus that same drive in a > RAID1 config (as well as of course RAID0) I know :) the problem is that it is a driver *just* for the highpoint cards, whereas the ATA RAID driver support both Promise & Highpoint cards, even in the same machine :) You should test whats in -current, its close already, I'm still wrestling highpoint less than perfect config layout on disks, they didn't design that very well, is not entirely secure in all situations, ie you can rebuild your RAID1 from the *wrong* part of the mirror just because it lost its marbles :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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