RAID in FreeBSD

[jason]

andy at neu.net wrote:

>According to the handbook it says:
>The twe driver provides support for the following series of ATA RAID con-
>     trollers:
>
>     o   Escalade 3W-5x00
>     o   Escalade 3W-6x00
>     o   Escalade 3W-7x00
>     o   Escalade 3W-8x00
>
>     These devices support 2, 4 or 8 ATA disk drives and provide RAID0
>(strip-
>     ing) and RAID1 (mirroring) functionality.
>
>I am considering buying a 3Ware Escalade 7506-4LP Kit, 4 port low profile
>ATA 133 PCI 64/66 RAID Controller to use RAID5.  The card supports
>level 5, my question is, is RAID5 supported on FreeBSD?  Does anyone have
>experience with this card good or bad?  Are there any other suggestions
>for lowcost IDE RAID5?
>
>TIA
>
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If you don't get SATA or SATA2 the card looks expensive, but I have only 
been shopping for a card for a few days so I can't give great advise on 
brands.  I would suggest storagereview.com for that.  

Have you tried emailing msmith at FreeBSD.org? 

Also FreeBSD can do raid5 with vinum, or gvinum now.  It uses the cpu 
and works with whatever controller but will be slower from what I have 
heard.