RocketRAID 2640X4 and FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE

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Having trouble locating a driver to get my Highpoint RocketRAID 2640X4 up and running. Operating it as a JBOD to run ZFS pool on 4 drives, most other Highpoint cards are supported, I'm unsure why this was left out?

The manufacturer doesn't appear to have a updated driver and I was unable to get the old one to work. If anyone knows of a generic driver or anyone who has compiled a new one, that would be great.

Any and all comments are welcome. I'm at a loss.

Thanks for the help!
 
Are you trying to use it as a hardware RAID card or in JBOD mode (Host Bus Adapter HBA) for ZFS? I see that the card is about $150. Did you know that you can get a really good LSI 9211-8i on e-bay for about $100. That is about as good HBA as it gets (I have 4 of those). If you are after RAID cards I would not rely on anything cheaper than $600-$700. LSI and Areca cards have really good support. IMHO due to ZFS hardware RAID makes no sense with FreeBSD. If you want hardware RAID use DragonFly BSD.
 
I've just been using the card in JBOD mode to give extra SATA ports for a ZFS pool. So any sort of driver to get 10.1 to see the drives will do the trick..

Thanks for the info Oko!
 
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