Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:30:15 +0300 From: "Artem Kuchin" <matrix@itlegion.ru> To: "Gavin Atkinson" <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD4.10 Message-ID: <01ab01c51fec$c1b00b50$0c00a8c0@artem> References: <20050302104641.44708.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <20050302111457.GB97448@pc5-179.lri.fr> <024601c51f33$eda69e40$0c00a8c0@artem> <57d7100005030221505d8ff1b2@mail.gmail.com> <00b101c51fd1$3fd448f0$0c00a8c0@artem> <1109851802.84539.10.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:13 +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: >> pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru> >>> wrote: >>>> Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) >>>> controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD >>>> 4.10 ? >>>> >>>> It is to be installed on a very old motherboard (1998) and two 40GB >>>> IDE driver (more or less modern ones, at least not used ones for >>>> sure). >>> >>> sorry I don't know of any really cheap one's off hand, altho I do >>> have experience with 3Ware RAID cards on 4.x. They seemed to work >>> well, and they are less expensive than proper SCSI cards...altho >>> slower. If cost really an issue would it be worth mirroring your >>> disks in software via VINUM? >> >> Well, i don't trust software raids. But 3ware is probably one of the >> most expensive raid 0,1 controllers. There must be something around >> 40$ which freebsd supports. Does anyone known any model? > > I'm currently using an Adaptec 1200A on > FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Fri Feb 4 02:43:22 GMT 2005 > root@zoidberg.xxxxxxx.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOIDBERG > > and it works without any problems. I'm using it in RAID1 mode and it > seems to be nice and fast. It's happy booting and running even with > one > of the pair removed, and is happy with rebuilding afterwards. > Although, > to be honest once this machine has booted it mainly only uses the > disks > for logging, so I'm not putting significant load in the controller. > > atapci0: <HighPoint HPT370 UDMA100 controller> port HighPoint HPT370 ? So this Adaptec 1200A is actually HPT370? I see you use it on 5.3-STABLE. Are the drivers built in or you downloaded them from the vendor's site? Artem
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