sata raid card for FreeBSD?

[Thomas Fischer]

Hi Rick,

These are Maxtor 500GB drives purchased just a couple of weeks ago, so I
assume that they are SATA-II capable...

thanks and best regards,

tom

On 5/9/07, Rick C. Petty <rick-freebsd at kiwi-computer.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote:
> >
> > Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both
> > Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for me.  Would
> > anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would
> be
> > well supported by FreeBSD?  I don't need anything fancy - just something
> > with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) supported
> by
> > FreeBSD (and Windows).
>
> SATA and not SATA II?  If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or
> similar would work:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219
>
> I think ataraid(4) supports this metadata format, otherwise if you haven't
> bought a board yet, get any nForce board with SATA RAID0/1.
>
> -- Rick C. Petty
>