Intel ICH7R RAID controller working on 6.1/STABLE?

Javier Henderson Javier at KJSL.COM
Sat Jul 15 01:13:00 UTC 2006


* H. Wade Minter <minter at lunenburg.org> [060714 17:01]:
> 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 server specs are here:
> 
> http://store.ebizpc.com/su5018.html
> 
> Can anyone confirm or deny its support under FreeBSD?

I've 6.1-RELEASE on an Intel D945PVS, which has the ICH7R with four
320 GB SATA drives in a RAID 5 configuration. It works fine, and I did
put it through its paces before I started storing valuable data.

-jav


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