From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 11:38:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A8216A400 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 11:38:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CC013C457 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 11:38:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so261835ugh for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 04:38:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=hoHRPcDVxiFEW+fryJmjwdGgbigoPnxPesx9vvaAp61yyJWAFFHj7AoxsUWzuSsJ7RdSfePvjXP+5lSynSQk8xkAQK+rdhsdnadWDxvNLaRIBPnSh2RwtcB3+MFpDU3XYTprnKAK8vVzhFSgj/RvIbSqhpuK4ktlo0hLa+v+o0o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=auXVVFxrSjeXIacrbBfC6JSb4NhntAgewRr1cvB2ZlzUO3YN4Hbx4fDOHu9/T+KRX0DwoOvoR/micDTOyj+ESaqh7srdw5WCniy4bahXY6TGls179lmmPkfXdfwINGMZ8rkxUMgynqJ852ldy4XxPWOTVvwOkB1CPrSwCP0+OY8= Received: by 10.82.158.12 with SMTP id g12mr829166bue.1178710702254; Wed, 09 May 2007 04:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.179.4 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2007 04:38:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6651c95f0705090438t26f425c3sd75e0eea26057752@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:38:21 +0200 From: "Thomas Fischer" To: "Gary D. Margiotta" In-Reply-To: <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "Rick C. Petty" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:38:24 -0000 Hi Gary, Thanks for your comments - I've found a Highpoint 1640 card at an interesting price - 4 ports, so I have room to expand in the future. Any gotchas with this card as opposed to the 1542 that you've recommended? best regards, tom On 5/9/07, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > On Tue, 8 May 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: > > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: > >> > >> Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both > >> Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for > me. Would > >> anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would > be > >> well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just > something > >> with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) > supported by > >> FreeBSD (and Windows). > > > > SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or > > similar would work: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 > > Go for a Highpoint card, something like the 1542, I've got a bunch in > both windows and freebsd machines, and they work rather well. They're not > the speediest cards, but I've not had a DOA or a failure yet with them, > and they just work. > > I'd personally stay away from the Sil chipsets, the newer ones aren't as > bad, but I've seen a lot of not-nice things about those cards from Soren > in the past, and being that he's the ATA maintainer, I'd take his advice > pretty seriously. > > -Gary > >