S-ATA RAID Controllers Revisited

[Palle Girgensohn]

Apart from the RAID part, does serial ATA on Asus A7N8X work fine? With 
FreeBSD 4.9? I'm planning on buying one, so I'd love to the status,a nd 
opinions. Shall I get a S-ATA harddisk or a standard plain ATA one?

/Palle

--On Monday, January 12, 2004 11:01:47 -0700 "John R. Shannon" 
<john at johnrshannon.com> wrote:

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> I don't know about SATA RAID support, but, you might look at vinum to
> mirror  your drives if the hardware support is not there. It works quite
> well.
>
> On Monday 12 January 2004 10:53 am, Dr. Clark Mankin wrote:
>> Hello, Everyone.
>>
>> I have just completely replaced my server farm with new machines built
>> around the Asus A7N8X system board which includes a pair of these RAID
>> controllers on the board.  The Windoze driver supports RAID 0
>> interleaving for faster performance or RAID 1 to create mirrored pairs.
>>
>> FreeBSD 5.1 found the RAID controller but failed to install a driver.
>> I'm not certain whether I might need to roll a custom kernel for that
>> function or if I might find a 3rd party driver that will work.  Really
>> all I want is RAID 1.  I have a file server and mirrored pairs meet my
>> particular need best.
>>
>> For those of you who might want to experiment a bit, two brand new hard
>> drives by the same manufacturer and of the same size can be mirrored very
>> satisfactorily using rsync.  This is not "RAID" in the strict sense of
>> the word, however the end results are so similar that I doubt anyone
>> blindfolded would know whether the drive had been mirrored with a RAID
>> controller or with rsync.
>>
>> Since I have the raid controllers I thought I'd try them - if I can get a
>> driver.  If not then I'll use "plan b" and mirror a drive in each
>> enclosure using rsync as a nightly procedure in addition to my regular
>> backup routine.
>>
>> If any of you intrepid Digital Pioneers know of an appropriate driver,
>> please share your knowledge.
>>
>> Thanks and I hope your day is filled with joy and prosperity.
>>
>> D. Clark Mankin
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