Re: SATA Host Adapter Recommendation
--As of May 21, 2011 7:26:22 PM -0700, Jason C. Wells is alleged to have said: I am looking to get 2 sata host adapters. The mandatory requirements are good freebsd support and hot swap capability. I plan to use gmirror. I have discovered that my onboard chipsets don't support hot swap. --As for the rest, it is mine. While I will be reading this thread with interest, as I'm looking to buy a SATA adaptor sometime in the moderate future, I do have one other thought: Before you assume your onboard chipsets don't support hot swap, check your BIOS settings. Many boards still ship with their BIOS set to run everything in 'legacy' mode, which doesn't support hot swap. Make sure there isn't a switch for a AHCI mode that needs to be flipped. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ 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
SATA Host Adapter Recommendation
I am looking to get 2 sata host adapters. The mandatory requirements are good freebsd support and hot swap capability. I plan to use gmirror. I have discovered that my onboard chipsets don't support hot swap. The highpoint cards are rated highly on newegg. Are these good with freebsd? Thanks, Jason C. Wells ___ 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
Re: SATA Host Adapter Recommendation
I have a Highpoint 4-port PCI-E 4x card in a server that has worked well for a few years. It's a bit pricey, but I've had no problems with it. Recently, I've gotten 3 Rosewill RC-218 cards because they're much cheaper and I don't need the RAID functionality on other cards. I'm building servers with them now, but FreeBSD recognizes the disks attached to them fine (so long as your on = 8.2 and you add hw.hptrr.attach_generic=0 in /boot/loader.conf). I haven't tried hot-swapping any drives yet, but I'm assuming since it's SATA it should work fine. I should probably verify that soon. Rob On 5/21/11 9:26 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: I am looking to get 2 sata host adapters. The mandatory requirements are good freebsd support and hot swap capability. I plan to use gmirror. I have discovered that my onboard chipsets don't support hot swap. The highpoint cards are rated highly on newegg. Are these good with freebsd? Thanks, Jason C. Wells ___ 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 ___ 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
