Steven Hartland wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Long" <scottl_at_samsco.org> > >>> According to the documentation this is not the case and the XOR >>> calcs are done in hardware on the onboard HPT 601. >> >> >> Maybe I'm confused and we are talking about different cards. > > > Quite possibly all other highpoint cards that Im aware of are > software RAID. > >>> Note: all tests are being done on i386 not AMD64 due to our requirement >>> for i386 Linux emulation which it is my understanding is not >>> available when >>> running AMD64 FreeBSD. >> >> >> Linux/i386 emulation works quite well on FreeBSD/amd64 and is getting >> better every day. There is active development on it at the moment. > > > Now that is very interesting. Are you talking in 5.x stream or in 6.x? > I cant risk putting 6x on this machine but would be quite willing to > throw 5.x AMD64 on it and give it a whirl. > I just installed the Linux StarOffice 7 suite on FreeBSD/amd64 running a recent 6-CURRENT. 5-STABLE isn't too far behind in the linux emulation area, from what I understand. The biggest problem is that you need to compile in the COMPAT_LINUX32 and LINPROCFS options as they don't build as modules right now. ScottReceived on Mon May 09 2005 - 02:21:26 UTC
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