Hi,
Last Friday I ranted:
>In this case, time IS money, so that's why I'm trying to convince my >client to better spend that money (and my time) on simply buying a >supported hardware RAID controller, which really is a win-win situation >for both my client and myself. However, somehow I've not yet been able >to drive that argument home, so who knows...:/
Well, eureka, I did it! :) That is... I managed to convince the client to go hardware RAID. ;)
They have a preference for the following controller: Promise FAST Trak S150TX4
But..................................
As far as I gather from the supported hardware list (fbsd 5.3, amd-64) at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-amd64.html#DISK
It looks like this controller is not supported. :(
To further compound matters, checking the docs on the controller suggests that, again, this is basically a software RAID solution (no CPU, no on-board memory, and a 66MHz PCI 2.2 32-bit interface): nice to complement their otherwise blazingly fast 64-bit AMD machine, duh! :(((
Oh well, again I made a very strong suggestion to buy the Adaptec 2200s U320 SCSI RAID controller, but we'll see... :)
Meanwhile, does anyone know of a good hardware SATA RAID controller capable of supporting RAID 10, and which is properly supported by FreeBSD 5.3 (amd64)? Any experiences? Any do's and dont's?
Tnx & cheerz! Olafo _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
