Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:58:45 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: Ronny Hippler <r11roadster@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hardware <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Raid Cards & mobo Message-ID: <434DE985.8070204@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <434DD2DE.20704@yahoo.com> References: <434DD2DE.20704@yahoo.com>
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Ronny Hippler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all! > I am in the early stages of building a new machine to act as a file/web > server newsgroup leacher etc. I know I want to add a raid card and was > looking @ the PROMISE SATAII150 TX4 PCI SATA Controller Card. I am > running 4.10 currently with a TX2 card but looking in the hardware notes > I see only one promise card even listed for 5.4? Has all support been > dropped from FreeBSD for promise cards? Also looking at an ASUS > P4P800S-X anyone know if the sound(ADI AD1888 SoundMAX) and NIC(Realtek > RTL8101L) work in 5.4? I may consider 6.x-Beta if I can get the on board > stuff working. If none of the above are do-able I am open to suggestions > as far as RAID & NIC cards go. I would like to do RAID0+1, and if I have > to buy a separate NIC I would like it to be a Gigabit card. > The Promise cards are all listed using their chip numbers (like PDC20271 say, for a TX2000) in the newer man page for ata(4). This makes identification a little more complex - since without a card to look at it can be hard to find out the chip number! A read of src/sys/dev/ata/ata_chipset.c *may* be helpful. I think the card you are after uses a PDC20622 chip, and is mentioned in 5.4-RELEASE ata_chipset.c, but not ata(4) man page - ran into this myself concerning a SX4060. regards Mark
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