I'm considering ordering some of these servers to run FreeBSD 6.1 or 6-STABLE on, but they have Intel ICH7R RAID controllers on them. Googling around, I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or they work, or work well enough to use in production. The server specs are here: http://store.ebizpc.com/su5018.html Can anyone confirm or deny its support under FreeBSD? Thanks, Wade
Hi, I found these: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ataraid&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html These look promising imho. Of course real world experience would be appriciated. Andras H. Wade Minter wrote:> I'm considering ordering some of these servers to run FreeBSD 6.1 or > 6-STABLE on, but they have Intel ICH7R RAID controllers on them. > Googling around, I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or > they work, or work well enough to use in production. > > The server specs are here: > > http://store.ebizpc.com/su5018.html > > Can anyone confirm or deny its support under FreeBSD? > > Thanks, > Wade > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
H. Wade Minter wrote:> I'm considering ordering some of these servers to run FreeBSD 6.1 or > 6-STABLE on, but they have Intel ICH7R RAID controllers on them. > Googling around, I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or > they work, or work well enough to use in production.The chipset is supported, but i wouldn't recommend onboard raid for any production server. Get a real raid controller, or use gmirror if you plan to mirror. I use several of these board sin production with gmirror.
* H. Wade Minter <minter@lunenburg.org> [060714 17:01]:> I'm considering ordering some of these servers to run FreeBSD 6.1 or > 6-STABLE on, but they have Intel ICH7R RAID controllers on them. Googling > around, I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or they work, or > work well enough to use in production. > > The server specs are here: > > http://store.ebizpc.com/su5018.html > > Can anyone confirm or deny its support under FreeBSD?I've 6.1-RELEASE on an Intel D945PVS, which has the ICH7R with four 320 GB SATA drives in a RAID 5 configuration. It works fine, and I did put it through its paces before I started storing valuable data. -jav