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Date:      Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:51:02 -0300
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tulio_Guimar=E3es_da_Silva?= <tuliogs@pgt.mpt.gov.br>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: building an older server
Message-ID:  <4315C3D6.4070509@pgt.mpt.gov.br>
In-Reply-To: <20050830004236.GA86426@neptune.atopia.net>
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Was missing this one...

Dan Ponte wrote:

>>>You might want to check HARDWARE.txt if it's supported. An apropos(1)
>>>here for "HighPoint" only yields results for hptmv(4), which supports
>>>the RocketRAID 128x. You will most likely want to recompile it into your
>>>kernel if such support exists; you should do so anyway, to reduce the
>>>bloat and get rid of unnecessary drivers in your kernel. By the way, my
>>>machine uses an Abit BH6 (single CPU, pIII/500).
>>>      
>>>
>>I'll check for support. I don't have access to a FreeBSD box at this 
>>moment, so I'm planning all theoretically. Once I'm close the FreeBSD box 
>>again I'll check, but that will also be the moment I have to quickly decide 
>>what to use :) and I try not to wait until then to get an idea of 
>>everything ;)
>>I will recompile the kernel anyway, but the question is if I can install on 
>>disks on that controller from the beginning, or do I have to do it first on 
>>a normal controller and only after recompiling will I see my disks on the 
>>HighPoint?
>>btw, this is same genration of motherboard: any stability issues? they are 
>>supposed to be rock solid, right?...
>>    
>>
>
>I'm not sure. I've personally never used RAID under FreeBSD. I would
>guess that it might support i already via a module, but I'm not sure.
>The board I have is rock-solid. It's been in service here (it replaced
>an Abit BX6 with a p2/300) for almost a year, never skipped a beat. Some
>have told me that some revisions of the board had problems, but mine
>seems to be the same that they mention, and I've had none. Both boards
>were superb. Abit seems to be a very good manufacturer (or they were, I
>can't comment on any of their newer boards, which I'd imagine may be
>worse).
>
  Highpoint usually provides FreeBSD drivers; I don´t know for now, but 
until some time ago, for all boards they had in their site, there was a 
corresponding FBSD driver up to at least 5.1. That was the final word in 
HPT´s favor over Promise, when we were looking for RAID cards.
  I don´t know if HPT366´s drivers work on recent releases but, if so, 
and if hptmv(4) doesn´t already support it, all you´ll have to do is to 
copy Highpoint´s drivers to a floppy and load´em at boot prompt, then it 
should go without much ado.
  BTW, I had forgotten it, but I´ve had very nice experiences with FBSD 
up to 5.2.1 on hardware as old as Pentium MMX on a PC-Chips M5xx o_O 
(THAT impressed me) or dual-Pentium 200MHz (P54C) on a server MB with 
Intel chipset, so you shouldn´t have big issues; for SMP, I would just 
suggest to remove "cpu I386" and "I486", since you won´t need them.
  As for soft RAID, I guess you´ll need to test it and see if your 
hardware won´t complain... we used Linux soft IDE-RAID 0 on that 
dual-P200 here and performance was not short of irritating. Though your 
hardware is better, according to a recent thread on -perf md(4) was 
significantly slower than Linux´s equivalent (don´t rebember what is it).
  I hope that´ll help you. ;) Have luck,

Tulio G. da Silva

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