quick advice needed RE: Intel Integrated Server RAID and FreeBSD
Juri Mianovich
juri_mian at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 28 10:53:41 PDT 2009
Hello,
I am considering this motherboard:
http://www.intel.com/products/server/motherboards/S5000PSL/S5000PSL-overview.htm
The Intel S5000 PSL Server board, with "Intel Integrated Server RAID". I plan on using the onboard raid for a simple boot mirror.
I have two quick questions:
1. What chipset/controller is this "Intel Integrated Server RAID" and is it well supported in FreeBSD ? Will sysinstall recognize it ? Is there a CLI tool ofr viewing status once FreeBSD is running ?
2. Is this _real_ hardware raid ? As in, FreeBSD will know _nothing_ about the raid and will simply see one disk (which is a mirror) ? I am seeing discussion that I don't understand about how this is somehow software raid, but If it's all built on the board ... ?
Performance isn't a real issue since it is just a boot mirror. I just want to hide the raid layer from the OS and do my raid work (rebuilds, etc.) through the BIOS.
Thanks.
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