Stable on Supermicro server?

[Ben Stuyts]

On 14 Jul 2004, at 02:12, Chris Foote wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Ben Stuyts wrote:
>
>> I am planning on building a FreeBSD server with a Supermicro 5013C-T 
>> 1U server. It has a Supermicro P4SCE motherboard, with a P4 of around 
>> 2.8 GHz, and 512MB or 1 GB memory. I am planning on adding two 
>> Western Digital Raptor 74 GB SATA drives in mirror.

> The SATA RAID controller, although it provides a 'legacy' option
> which should expose the RAID as an ordinary device, doesn't work
> despite the fact that both disk drives' LEDs flash when RAID 1 is
> enabled ;-(  The RAID isn't supported by almost any operating system.

So I'm not sure I understand fully: is there a way to connect the sata 
drives to the onboard ich5 controller, and make them work as separate 
(not raid) devices? In that case I could use vinum.

Thanks,
Ben