Thank you for your replay Scott ! But I'm in Brazil and this kind off Adapter is hard to find here, expensive and the delivery is toooo slow :((
Someone know's about some onboard chipset that works correct at FreeBSD 4.10 ?? Tranks, Alexandre On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:40:38 -0600, Scott Gerhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been in your exact situation. > > Avoid anything that uses the term "Host RAID", this is not true > hardware RAID and is cheap crap. Many motherboards such as Intel come > with this feature with utilize the Adaptec 1210SA or Promise chips, > avoid them and make sure to disable the onboard raid features before > trying to install the OS. > > I have had success with the 3Ware 8006-2LP two channel RAID card. It > is recognized perfectly by FreeBSD and does hardware raid that is > transparent to the OS. This card retails for about $225 CAD. > > If you can afford it, I would recommend one of the 4 channel SATA RAID > cards from Adaptec, 3Ware, or LSI. The will give you the capability of > doing RAID 5 with 3 or more drives if you ever need to. > > Hope that helps. > > Thanks, > > -- > Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo. > Gerhardt Information Technologies > > > On Dec 3, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > I'm mounting a machine (FreeBSD 4.10) that need to have 2 HD's > > mirrored tthrough hardware (IDE Raid). > > > > I looked the Hardware Notes and find the following supported > > chipsets that are capable of this: > > > > - Promise Fasttrak-33, -66, -100, -100 TX2/TX4, -133 TX2/TX2000 > > - HighPoint HPT366 ATA66, HPT370 ATA100, HPT372 ATA133, HPT374 > > ATA133 > > - Via 8237 > > > > (Some others like Intel ICH5 can do Raid but this need an > > "driver" and just work for windows...(?) I think) > > > > I just need that the mirror be done at Hardware level and be > > transparent to OS. > > > > I'm looking an Motherboad Asus A7V600-X that comes with VIA VT8237, > > this will work ?? I should choose ATA or SATA drives ? > > > > Someone has some expirence, advise or sugestion ?? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Alexandre > > _______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
