what about highpoint 1640 SATA RAID controller ?

[Alessandro de Manzano]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:26:58PM -0500, Gary D. Margiotta wrote:

> It depends on what Highpoint controllers you are talking about.  There are 
> "soft" versions from Promise and Highpoint, which leach off the CPU for a 
> lot of their work.  This is the case with the 1640 controller I believe. 
> However, at least with Highpoint, they do offer a series with a dedicated 
> processor onboard, which is their "A" series, which is meant to compete 
> with the offerings of 3Ware.

As I wrote in another mail, the 1640 too seems to be hardware-based
(according to the online PDF manual), it also provides a BIOS based
utility at boot.

> I recently purchased an 1820A series controller from Highpoint, which is 
> an 8-port Serial ATA controller, 64-bit (32-bit PCI compatible), for just 
> over $200 USD.  I paired it up with 4 WD 320GB drives, in a RAID-5 config, 

It's a bit too much for my needs, the price is interesting for an
8-drive card, but it's over ny needs and my money (I couldn't buy so
much HDs anyways ;)) )


> hptmv0: <RocketRAID 182x SATA Controller> mem 0xd8000000-0xd807ffff irq 18 
> at device 18.0 on pci0
> RocketRAID 182x SATA Controller driver Version 1.1
> RR182x [0,0]: channel started successfully
> RR182x [0,1]: channel started successfully
> RR182x [0,2]: channel started successfully
> RR182x [0,3]: channel started successfully
> RR182x: RAID5 write-back enabled
> 
> da0 at hptmv0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <RR182x RAID 5 Array 3.00> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da0: 915735MB (1875425280 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 116739C)

very nice... I guess the 1640's would be recognized as ata(4) devices,
it seems to me the hptmv(4) is only for 182x.

thanks for answer! :)

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bye!

Ale

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