Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 17:40:17 +0100 From: Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> To: stuart@aurora-solutions.co.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Serial ATA Message-ID: <200505021740.18676.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <427653BF.2090104@aurora-solutions.co.uk> References: <4274E348.7040909@aurora-solutions.co.uk> <4274EA9A.2060800@cs.tu-berlin.de> <427653BF.2090104@aurora-solutions.co.uk>
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On Monday 02 May 2005 17:22, O'Reilly, Stuart wrote: > %< ----------- snipped > > > I have good experiences with RocketRAID 1520 and 1640. I'm running a > > 1640 with three SATA drives since one year without problems; it's just a > > little bit slow. Highpoint offers binary FreeBSD drivers for these > > controllers, but I think that people don't like this kind of support > > because Highpoint neglects it for older models and this dependency might > > be dangerous in future. Keep in mind: you'll get what you pay for. > > > > Regards > > Bj=F6rn > > Can someone just answer a quick question. One of the suggestions > mentioned was the Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 controller which is a low > cost solutions however support for FreeBSD stopped at v5.1. > > However, scrolling down the list of driver software for the RocketRAID > 1520, Highpoint offer the option of downloading the Linux Open Source > Driver and compiling it yourself. To quote the website: > > "Support Linux kernel version 2.2.x to 2.6.x on x86 and x86_64 platform." > > Would this be a suitable option since (as I understand it), FreeBSD is > i386. =46reeBSD has an i386 version, but it isn't only available for i386. See:=20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.= html Regarding the driver for Linux: Often the guts of drivers distributed in this way are binary and the interf= ace=20 which brings the binary and the kernel together is all that is publicly=20 accessible. You will (quite literally) have more luck getting a binary=20 Windows driver to work on FreeBSD than a binary Linux driver. > Sorry if I sound like i'm trying to get blood from a stone. ;) Be wary of cheap controllers which burden your system with extra work inste= ad=20 of less. > Stuart, > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" HTH, =2D-=20 Dominic GoodforBusiness.co.uk I.T. Services for SMEs in the UK.
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