Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4)

[Rogier Krieger]

Hi there Paul,

Previous correspondence from Paul Hamilton (15:19 12-1-2004 +0800):
>How about the Rocket Raid 1540 or the 1820, 8 drive SATA for ~ AUS$330
>48bit LBA, can do Raid 1 and single drives at the same time.  Raid 5 is
>slow, because it does software parity checking.

Thanks for the tip. I couldn't find it in the 5.2 hardware support pages,
though.
Highpoint's web site [1] mentions support for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.0. It took
me a while to find that info. The 1820 also appears to have support for
FreeBSD 5.1, according to the website [2]. I suppose I wasn't looking
carefully enough.

Cheers,

Rogier Krieger


References:
[1] Highpoint RocketRaid 1540 support page
        [ http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/brr1540.htm ]
[2] Highpoint RocketRaid 1820 support page
        [ http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/brr1820.htm ]