On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:26:58PM -0500, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > It depends on what Highpoint controllers you are talking about. There are > "soft" versions from Promise and Highpoint, which leach off the CPU for a > lot of their work. This is the case with the 1640 controller I believe. > However, at least with Highpoint, they do offer a series with a dedicated > processor onboard, which is their "A" series, which is meant to compete > with the offerings of 3Ware.
As I wrote in another mail, the 1640 too seems to be hardware-based (according to the online PDF manual), it also provides a BIOS based utility at boot. > I recently purchased an 1820A series controller from Highpoint, which is > an 8-port Serial ATA controller, 64-bit (32-bit PCI compatible), for just > over $200 USD. I paired it up with 4 WD 320GB drives, in a RAID-5 config, It's a bit too much for my needs, the price is interesting for an 8-drive card, but it's over ny needs and my money (I couldn't buy so much HDs anyways ;)) ) > hptmv0: <RocketRAID 182x SATA Controller> mem 0xd8000000-0xd807ffff irq 18 > at device 18.0 on pci0 > RocketRAID 182x SATA Controller driver Version 1.1 > RR182x [0,0]: channel started successfully > RR182x [0,1]: channel started successfully > RR182x [0,2]: channel started successfully > RR182x [0,3]: channel started successfully > RR182x: RAID5 write-back enabled > > da0 at hptmv0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <RR182x RAID 5 Array 3.00> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > da0: 915735MB (1875425280 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 116739C) very nice... I guess the 1640's would be recognized as ata(4) devices, it seems to me the hptmv(4) is only for 182x. thanks for answer! :) -- bye! Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
