On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 15:30 +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: > Gavin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:13 +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: > >> pete wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) > >>>> controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD > >>>> 4.10 ? > >>>> > >>>> It is to be installed on a very old motherboard (1998) and two 40GB > >>>> IDE driver (more or less modern ones, at least not used ones for > >>>> sure). > >>> > >>> sorry I don't know of any really cheap one's off hand, altho I do > >>> have experience with 3Ware RAID cards on 4.x. They seemed to work > >>> well, and they are less expensive than proper SCSI cards...altho > >>> slower. If cost really an issue would it be worth mirroring your > >>> disks in software via VINUM? > >> > >> Well, i don't trust software raids. But 3ware is probably one of the > >> most expensive raid 0,1 controllers. There must be something around > >> 40$ which freebsd supports. Does anyone known any model? > > > > I'm currently using an Adaptec 1200A on > > FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Fri Feb 4 02:43:22 GMT 2005 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOIDBERG > > > > and it works without any problems. I'm using it in RAID1 mode and it > > seems to be nice and fast. It's happy booting and running even with > > one > > of the pair removed, and is happy with rebuilding afterwards. > > Although, > > to be honest once this machine has booted it mainly only uses the > > disks > > for logging, so I'm not putting significant load in the controller. > > > > atapci0: <HighPoint HPT370 UDMA100 controller> port > > HighPoint HPT370 ? So this Adaptec 1200A is actually > HPT370? I see you use it on 5.3-STABLE. Are the drivers built in or > you downloaded them from the vendor's site?
I'm just using the ATA driver built-in to 5.3. It seems to work fine for me. Gavin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
