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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