What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 12 February 2007 10:21, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> > Software RAID won't help you if your primary disk gets an error in, say,
> > the second stage loader.
>
> I don't really buy this "booting" arguement. What's the failure scenario
> here? If the system is up and running, it will just keep humming along.
> The SCSI or ATA layer is supposed to detach a failed drive and
> geom will disable one part of the mirror.
>
> You can react appropriately when you get the failure message.

Sure, if you're present.

I regularly ship systems overseas where the power fails frequently. The 
inability to boot because one disk got hosed is Bad News (tm).

It depends on your exact situation, I was just pointing out that SW RAID 
doesn't cover all the bases HW RAID does.

Murphy dictates that the moment one of your disks down your system will 
glitch/panic/etc and reboot and then you'll be stuffed :)

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