Intel ICH7R RAID controller working on 6.1/STABLE?
H. Wade Minter
minter at lunenburg.org
Fri Jul 14 21:16:20 UTC 2006
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> H. Wade Minter wrote:
>> 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 chipset is supported, but i wouldn't recommend onboard raid for any
> production server. Get a real raid controller, or use gmirror if you plan to
> mirror. I use several of these board sin production with gmirror.
So if I run the disks in non-RAID mode, and/or use software RAID, they
should work?
--Wade
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