It's not in the FreeBSD Hardware Notes for 4.9 and 5.2.1. But if it's completely hardware based as Adaptec claims, then it might work. Though I am not sure if FreeBSD can handle 2 TB of disk space. I don't think that fsck will like such high amount of disk space either.
Cheers, Jorn On 4/6/2004, "Chris Knipe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Lo all, > >How much of SATA is supported in FreeBSD?? A couple of questions if I may.... > >Firstly, is the Adaptec 2819SA (8-Port SATA RAID Controller) supported by FreeBSD >(4.8/4.9), and if it is, will a ufs file system cope with a 2TB, or bigger partition >(8 x 250GB SATA). I then also presume that if the OS supports the partition, I >should have no problems in regards to applications reading/writing to and from that >partition (samba mainly). > >>From what I can see at Adaptec, this card is COMPLETELY hardware based, which tells >>me that any OS will see the RAID Array as a single hard drive, and therefore it >>should make very little difference whether or not it is supported. But yeah, with >>2TB, I'd rather not take chances... > >The alternative is to build up a new Win2003 Server, and for that I really do not >have the patience :) > >Regards, >Me >_______________________________________________ >[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]"
