Intel ICH7R RAID controller working on 6.1/STABLE?

[Mike Jakubik]

H. Wade Minter wrote:
> I'm considering ordering some of these servers to run FreeBSD 6.1 or 
> 6-STABLE on, but they have Intel ICH7R RAID controllers on them.  
> Googling around, I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or 
> they work, or work well enough to use in production.

The chipset is supported, but i wouldn't recommend onboard raid for any 
production server. Get a real raid controller, or use gmirror if you 
plan to mirror. I use several of these board sin production with gmirror.