make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

[Mike Tancsa]

At 12:00 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:

>Finally, any pointers on a 2 port PCI SATA board that (1) is KNOWN to
>work, (2) has EXTERNAL SATA connections, and (3) isn't one of those
>whiz-bang all-in-one-RAID thingies that costs $500?

3ware makes an excellent 2 port SATA card (8000 series) that works very 
well.  Its about $110 USD from various online sources.  You can use it as 
RAID1 or 2 independent disks.  They work very well and are well tested in 
FreeBSD.

         ---Mike