From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 15:17:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9273A16A41F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:17:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ale@unixmania.net) Received: from fe-6c.inet.it (fe-6c.inet.it [213.92.5.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8877843D66 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:17:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ale@unixmania.net) Received: from 81-174-26-112.f5.ngi.it ([::ffff:81.174.26.112]) by fe-6c.inet.it via I-SMTP-5.2.3-521 id ::ffff:81.174.26.112+of3WA0QIp3B; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:17:32 +0100 Received: by libero.sunshine.ale (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E18D31550A8; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:17:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:17:59 +0100 From: Alessandro de Manzano To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051128161759.A66307@libero.sunshine.ale> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Subject: what about highpoint 1640 SATA RAID controller ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:17:34 -0000 Hello, well, subj already says ;), however I'm planning to buy a good, supported and possibly not very expensive SATA RAID PCI controller for my FreeBSD server (an IBM x206). I'll install FreeBSD 6.0-R from scratch. Googling around I found the Highpoint RocketRAID 1640 PCI 32bit SATA RAID 0,1 (5 ?, 10 ? docs are not very clear) controller. I'm mainly interested in RAID 1 (mirror) with RAID 5 as a plus. Anyone already using it could please provide my feedback ? It's well supported ? (reading ata(4) and ataraid(4) seems yes but...) Works ok ? it's a RocketRAID V2 or V3 metadata (according to ataraid(4) only V2 is read-write supported) Any suggestions, recommendation, hints, etc. are very welcome ! :-) Many thanks in advance!! -- bye! Ale