Which motherboard for RAID in AMD64?

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On 6/8/05, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 17:32, you wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > > 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,
> >
> > I am a little confused. Do you have one of those onboard and the second as
> > a pci card?
> 
> Lots of motherboards have two RAID controllers on board. See, the VIA KT800
> chipset has one and some vendors add a second, like a promise, for added
> value. 4 SATA connectors on the motherboard, on two different controllers.
> 
> > > my Gigabyte board only the VIA.
> >
> > Which model?
> 
> Mmm, you could look that up in the motherboard list, but it's the GA-K8VT800.
> That one has only the VIA embedded RAID.
> 
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Just to confirm, the Promise controller on the Asus A8V Deluxe works
also - I disabled the other onboard VIA SATA RAID and just use the
Promise for mirrored drives - works a treat. Configured at first boot
and installed directly to ar0. Have split and rebuilt the world (as
i386) just for testing. Thinking of a stripe on the VIA later maybe
for swap. Have to say it's kinda neat to have 2 onboard raid even if
only a 'consumer' level (no hot swap, battery backup), but the price
is definitely right.

--cheers
gm