[Soekris] SATA RAID

[Soren Kristensen]

Hi Henrik,

Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:01:21AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Information about performance of the 5501 is pretty limited right now,
>> because Soren hasn't released a production ready BIOS yet.
> 
> Speaking of the net5501 - anybody know if it is possible to have two
> harddisks connected at once (one SATA and one PATA HDD) with the
> net5501?

No, you can have CF and choice of either PATA or SATA.

> I'd like to use a setup like the above along with gmirror(4) (RAID1)
> under FreeBSD.
> 
> I could, of course, use a 3rd party SATA card in the PCI slot, but it
> would be nice if the net5501 support two disks at once on it's own.

But I'm planning to make a tiny SATA hardware RAID1 controller using one 
of those Silicon Image storage processor, including mounting hardware 
for two 2.5" SATA drives in the std case....


Best Regards,


Soren Kristensen