On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Charles Sprickman wrote: > For home use is the hot-swap option really needed? Also, it seems > like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up > buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There > seem to be no decent add-on SATA cards that play nice with FreeBSD > other than that weird supermicro card that has to be physically > hacked about to fit.
A friend of mine is building one and I couldn't get the Supermicro card to work (the older version). It being a black box driver I couldn't see what the problem was. I had good success with the onboard SATA ports (AHCI compliant), however there are only 6 ports on the board I picked. Hopefully port multipliers will be fully working when I need some more disks ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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