Hi I've installed freebsd 4_10 on a pc with Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A (mirror) and it seems to work fine. in dmesg I can see the raid (ar0) and the disks. my only concern is that since this card is not supported (according to adaptec it only supports windows), I'm afraid that in the case of disk failures, I won't see the errors in '/var/log/messages'. (a problem I'm having with compaq card and debian - but there, I can check the status with the leds). does anyone have experience with this card on freebsd? thanx -- Haim
Haim Ashkenazi wrote:>Hi > >I've installed freebsd 4_10 on a pc with Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A (mirror) >and it seems to work fine. in dmesg I can see the raid (ar0) and the >disks. >my only concern is that since this card is not supported (according to >adaptec it only supports windows), I'm afraid that in the case of disk >failures, I won't see the errors in '/var/log/messages'. (a problem I'm >having with compaq card and debian - but there, I can check the status >with the leds). >does anyone have experience with this card on freebsd? > >thanx > >I believe this card is based upon a Highpoint 370/370A chip which is supported by the manufacturer. http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/b370na.htm I 'm currently using a card with this chipset under FreeBSD 4.10 with no problems. The array was listed as a drive during the install process (along with it's component drives strangely.) Regards Gaz