On 23 April 2011, at 12:45, Michael L. Squires wrote: > I haven't seen a verbose dmesg output booting from a non-RAID hard drive. > > I have 7.4-STABLE working on several multi-CPU Opteron systems, but they are > all Tyan motherboards. Are Rioworks/Arima still in business?
I believe so. Their web page is there, but mostly in Chinese. > > Rather than use the on-board controllers I've just bought some of the LSI > 300-8X PCI-X RAID controllers which are cheap and work very well with SATA 2 > drives (and FreeBSD). The Adaptec 2610 series are even cheaper, but they > are only SATA 1. These boxes have no additional room for expansion cards. They have 4 apparently hot-swappable drives in the front._______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
