SATA Raid Controlller replacement card...

[Jan Knepper]

Søren, Freddie, thanks for the response...
Any suggestions on an affordable SATA Raid Card?

Thanks!
Jan



Søren Schmidt wrote:
> Jan Knepper wrote:
>> Currently using the SiI 3114 SATA150 controller on the motherboard 
>> (Tyan2885).
>> 2 *the same* SATA drives are attached, but not running SATA-RAID at 
>> the moment.
>>
>> Since I understand that this card does not really provide the RAID 
>> itself (and also does not seem as table as preferred on FreeBSD) I am 
>> wondering/considering obtaining a RAID card that does and possibly 
>> disabling the SiI 314 on the motherboard.
>>
>> However, the question is can that be done without having to 
>> reinstall? (I seem to recall that I can not just move SCSI drives 
>> from one interface to an interface of an other brand).
> Except for eventual drive renumbering caused by the possible different 
> PCI bus location and depending on whether static devices numbering is 
> used or not, you can move drives around (S)ATA controllers all you like.
> However if you have a softraid defined on the disks, that depends on 
> the controller BIOS to be maintained at the boot level.
>
> -Søren
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