Was missing this one...
Dan Ponte wrote:
You might want to check HARDWARE.txt if it's supported. An apropos(1)
here for "HighPoint" only yields results for hptmv(4), which supports
the RocketRAID 128x. You will most likely want to recompile it into your
kernel if such support exists; you should do so anyway, to reduce the
bloat and get rid of unnecessary drivers in your kernel. By the way, my
machine uses an Abit BH6 (single CPU, pIII/500).
I'll check for support. I don't have access to a FreeBSD box at this
moment, so I'm planning all theoretically. Once I'm close the FreeBSD box
again I'll check, but that will also be the moment I have to quickly decide
what to use :) and I try not to wait until then to get an idea of
everything ;)
I will recompile the kernel anyway, but the question is if I can install on
disks on that controller from the beginning, or do I have to do it first on
a normal controller and only after recompiling will I see my disks on the
HighPoint?
btw, this is same genration of motherboard: any stability issues? they are
supposed to be rock solid, right?...
I'm not sure. I've personally never used RAID under FreeBSD. I would
guess that it might support i already via a module, but I'm not sure.
The board I have is rock-solid. It's been in service here (it replaced
an Abit BX6 with a p2/300) for almost a year, never skipped a beat. Some
have told me that some revisions of the board had problems, but mine
seems to be the same that they mention, and I've had none. Both boards
were superb. Abit seems to be a very good manufacturer (or they were, I
can't comment on any of their newer boards, which I'd imagine may be
worse).
Highpoint usually provides FreeBSD drivers; I don´t know for now, but
until some time ago, for all boards they had in their site, there was a
corresponding FBSD driver up to at least 5.1. That was the final word in
HPT´s favor over Promise, when we were looking for RAID cards.
I don´t know if HPT366´s drivers work on recent releases but, if so,
and if hptmv(4) doesn´t already support it, all you´ll have to do is to
copy Highpoint´s drivers to a floppy and load´em at boot prompt, then it
should go without much ado.
BTW, I had forgotten it, but I´ve had very nice experiences with FBSD
up to 5.2.1 on hardware as old as Pentium MMX on a PC-Chips M5xx o_O
(THAT impressed me) or dual-Pentium 200MHz (P54C) on a server MB with
Intel chipset, so you shouldn´t have big issues; for SMP, I would just
suggest to remove "cpu I386" and "I486", since you won´t need them.
As for soft RAID, I guess you´ll need to test it and see if your
hardware won´t complain... we used Linux soft IDE-RAID 0 on that
dual-P200 here and performance was not short of irritating. Though your
hardware is better, according to a recent thread on -perf md(4) was
significantly slower than Linux´s equivalent (don´t rebember what is it).
I hope that´ll help you. ;) Have luck,
Tulio G. da Silva
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