IDE RAID

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

"Anthony Carmody" <anthony at carmoda.com> writes:
> does anyone have any experience with onboard IDE RAID set-ups with
> freeBSD 5.X?
> my hardware vendor has an Intel mainboard with an on-board  Promise*
> Technology SATA150TX4 4-Port Serial ATA RAID controller (PDC20319)
> i love to know if it'd work.

Works great (have one here), but unless you're going to boot from it
it's a waste of money since the striping / mirrorring is done in
software anyway.  The extra price is for the RAID-capable BIOS that
lets you boot from an array, once you've loaded the kernel, the ata
driver does all the heavy lifting.

DES
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