Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 01:18:54 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which motherboard for RAID in AMD64? Message-ID: <20050617081853.GG1485@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <200506071749.28840.groot@kde.org> References: <20050604234246.G69694@zoraida.natserv.net> <200506050949.54551.groot@kde.org> <20050607113123.R97707@zoraida.natserv.net> <200506071749.28840.groot@kde.org>
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:49:28PM +0200, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 17:32, you wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > > Via KT800's embedded RAID which shows up as atapci1: <VIA 6420 SATA150 > > > controller> works as a RAID controller; configure the RAID array before > > > installation and use ar0 as the device to install FreeBSD to. > > > > > > Promise 20378 RAID which shows up as atapci0: <Promise PDC20378 SATA150 > > > controller> works as a RAID controller; same deal. > > > > > > My K8V has both of these controllers, > > > > I am a little confused. Do you have one of those onboard and the second as > > a pci card? > > Lots of motherboards have two RAID controllers on board. See, the VIA KT800 > chipset has one and some vendors add a second, like a promise, for added > value. 4 SATA connectors on the motherboard, on two different controllers. Why do so many motherboard manufacturers do that? Is the SiI or Promise RAID controller ready better than the VIA one? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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