RAID 5 Adapters and FreeBSD 5.2.1 (was: Intel chipsets and FreeBSD)

[Patrick Hurrelmann]

 >
 > Hey Guys,
 >
 > My aim is to have FreeBSD 5.2.1 running on my system with 3 x 80GB 
IDE Hard
 > disks in a RAID 5 configuration.
 > I want FreeBSD 5.x becuase my machine is a Multi-processor and I want 
to take
 > advantage of the SMP code in 5.x.
 >
 > My question is this - whats the best way to acheive this?
 >
 > Should I use Vinum to acheive the Raid 5 bit, or whats this new Geom 
thingy,
 > also I would prefer a RAID adapter card providing they are cheap enough
 > (because the performance is better in hardware, isnt it?) ?
 >
 > Also what is the support for SATA like, Ideally I would like to have 
SATA Hard
 > Disks. I had consulted the HCL for FreeBSD 5.2.1 but it seems 
incomplete as it
 > doesnt list the Intel ICH5 SATA controller yet I know this works fine!
 > Two products look interesting which could help me here, but i am 
unsure of the
 > support for FreeBSD, could someone tell me whether either of these 
two products
 > are suppored and if not recommend something that is -
 >
 > 1) Promise FastTrak S150 SX4.
 >
 > 2) Promise FastTrak SX4000 Lite.
 >
 >
 > Thanks Adam Retter

Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:

  Hi,
  actually there is no raid 5 support for Promise (ATA-Controller in
  general) in 5.x. I don'T know much about Vinum, but you may use Vinum
  Raid5.
  Another solution would be a 3Ware SATA Raid-Controller using twe-driver.

  Patrick


Sorry, I replied wrong message ;)