I have several FreeBSD machines with onboard Promise and HighPoint ATA RAID controllers, and they all work perfectly. You should be OK with the Intel MB.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Schulte Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:41 PM To: Andrew Stesin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Q: FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT MB (Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID) At 05:36 PM 9/14/2002 +0300, Andrew Stesin wrote: >Hello people, > >Anyone tried FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT motherboard? > >Especially interesting is how an onboard Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID >controller works with FreeBSD - or better to say, does it work at all? >What are the caveates with it, if any? How RAID configuration works? I had the same question (on 4.7) regarding the pdc20267. There were no formal replies, so I asked Andrew privately. His response is below, printed with permission, in case others search the archives for this answer: Thanks Andrew. --reply start-- >Hi Christopher, > >I got a bunch of replies via private email (people think that it's so >obvious that doesn't worth any further public discussion). > >Everyone says that "yes it works perfectly". > >Unfortunately, I personally wasn't able to test this, because my plans to >buy this exact board changed with an appearance of new 845 chipset (533 >MHz FSB, DDR 333 etc.) and I got a modern one without RAID (now I'm a >happy user of vinum (1)). > >Regards, >Andrew --reply end-- -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
