Which motherboard for RAID in AMD64?

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Sunday 05 June 2005 05:45, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Although I see a list of motherboards at the freebsd site I don't see any
> notes about working RAID controllers.
>
> Anyone can confirm any of the motherboards on the list that it's
> controller's RAID is supported under FBSD-AMD64?

Via KT800's embedded RAID which shows up as atapci1: <VIA 6420 SATA150 
controller> works as a RAID controller; configure the RAID array before 
installation and use ar0 as the device to install FreeBSD to.

Promise 20378 RAID which shows up as atapci0: <Promise PDC20378 SATA150 
controller> works as a RAID controller; same deal.

My K8V has both of these controllers, my Gigabyte board only the VIA. Both 
seem to work fine at least in a mirroring setup. I've experimented with 
moving the array from one controller to another (ie. powerdown, disconnect 
both drives from Promise, reconnet to via, power up) and that worked at least 
once. Similarly, disconnecting a single drive retains functionality, though 
the array is marked as degraded.

Sil-based RAID seems to be dead in the water in 5-stable. Some boards - 
notably nForce based ones - seem to come with those as RAID controllers.

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