4.10 Raid1 at boot ?

[Alexandre Biancalana]

Thank you for your replay Scott !

But I'm in Brazil and this kind off Adapter is hard to find here,
expensive and the delivery is toooo slow :((

 Someone know's about some onboard chipset that works correct at FreeBSD 4.10 ??

 Tranks,

Alexandre


On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:40:38 -0600, Scott Gerhardt <scott at g-it.ca> wrote:
> I have been in your exact situation.
> 
> Avoid anything that uses the term "Host RAID", this is not true
> hardware RAID and is cheap crap.  Many motherboards such as Intel come
> with this feature with utilize the Adaptec 1210SA or Promise chips,
> avoid them and make sure to disable the onboard raid features before
> trying to install the OS.
> 
> I have had success with the 3Ware 8006-2LP two channel RAID card.  It
> is recognized perfectly by FreeBSD and does hardware raid that is
> transparent to the OS.  This card retails for about $225 CAD.
> 
> If you can afford it, I would recommend one of the 4 channel SATA RAID
> cards from Adaptec, 3Ware, or LSI.  The will give you the capability of
> doing RAID 5 with 3 or more drives if you ever need to.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo.
> Gerhardt Information Technologies
> 
> 
> On Dec 3, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> >
> >   I'm mounting a machine (FreeBSD 4.10) that need to have 2 HD's
> > mirrored tthrough hardware (IDE Raid).
> >
> >   I looked the Hardware Notes and find the following supported
> > chipsets that are capable of this:
> >
> >     - Promise Fasttrak-33, -66, -100, -100 TX2/TX4, -133 TX2/TX2000
> >     - HighPoint HPT366 ATA66, HPT370 ATA100, HPT372 ATA133, HPT374
> > ATA133
> >     - Via 8237
> >
> >     (Some others like Intel ICH5 can do Raid but this need an
> > "driver" and just work for windows...(?) I think)
> >
> >   I just need that the mirror be done at Hardware level and be
> > transparent to OS.
> >
> >   I'm looking an Motherboad Asus A7V600-X that comes with VIA VT8237,
> > this will work ?? I should choose ATA or SATA drives ?
> >
> >   Someone has some expirence, advise or sugestion ??
> >
> >  Best Regards,
> >
> > Alexandre
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