Re: Recommendations for cheap PCI-E network adapter ?

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette 
wrote:

>
> I need to buy a PCI-E ethernet card.  It won't really matter if it
> is 10/100/1000 or just 10/100 but it has to work with FreeBSD at a
> minimum.  It would be Nice if it was also supported by Linux and
> Windoze7, but that isn't really critical.
>
> I'm a serious cheapskate, so I'd like to spend as little as possible.
> I don't need anything super-deluxe.  Whatever is cheapest will be fine,
> even if the performance is only so-so.
>
> Recommendations would be appreciated.
>
>
> P.S.  The small amount of research I just now did suggests that Realtek
> based cards should be avoided, but one reviewer said that the Rosewill
> RC-411v3 works just fine on Ubuntu, so I'm not sure what to think about
> Realtek-based cards now.  The price is right (for me) on the Rosewill
> RC-411v3, but various online threads (relating to Realtek chips) give
> me pause...
>
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/60033/
>
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/55861/
>
> I really can't see blowing fifty bucks on a simple, low-end ethernet card,
> but everything inexpensive seems to be Realtek-based. :-(
>
>
You can get an new but older Intel PCI-E from the big retailer in the sky
for ~$20USD.

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Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote:



 Hi, thanks for your input.

 I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot
 from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed?

 What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't
 select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could
 just use zfs for raid functionality.

 Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot.
 Maybe this is what it's for?
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Your best bet would be to configure the drives as JBOD and see if it detects
the disks.  Post dmesg from that.

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Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote:


 FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help!



 You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot
 with a size  TB.  AKAIK, sysinstall doesn't support this, requiring a more
 hands on installation.

 If you haven't considered it, it may be worthwhile to use ZFS.  In that
 scenario, you'd want to the controller to present the disks as JBOD and use
 RAIDZ.  Once again, sysinstall doesn't support this, but there are some good
 FreeBSD wiki articles on it.


Opps, didn't read the RAID-0 bit, still try the GPT stuff, the 2TB MBR is a
hard limit.  gstripe(8) would also be an option.  With you're RAID-0, were
you looking of for read or write speed?  You can still use RAIDZ and
outperform a straight stripe in most workloads if you make use of an ssd
based L2ARC and a ZIL for read and writes respectively.


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Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Hello list

 I've run into a bit of an impasse with freebsd8 nd dell R710 server.
 Basically it has 3x 2TB disks (SATA) connected to a LSI card (on the
 order it is referred to as SAS6IR/PERC H200). I make the virtual disk on
 the SATA card (raid0 gives about 5.4Tb) but freebsd, after sysinstall
 loads and I set the timezone and keyboard, won't see the disk.

 I am accessing the server remotely via IDRAC6. This means I have a great
 deal of difficulty grabbing the console with alt-f2 on bootup.

 I have the feeling that maybe I have to pass a parameter to freebsd boot
 to make it see the virtual disk. Is this the cade? Or is the card just
 pants? Or is it not possible to boot over 2Tb? Or perhaps I need to boot
 a running system from a SD card, and then make the virtual disk?

 Or is it a sysinstall issue? Or a card issue? Freebsd sees the card (at
 least freebsd-9 did) but not the disk (same as freebsd-8)

 FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help!


You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot
with a size  TB.  AKAIK, sysinstall doesn't support this, requiring a more
hands on installation.

If you haven't considered it, it may be worthwhile to use ZFS.  In that
scenario, you'd want to the controller to present the disks as JBOD and use
RAIDZ.  Once again, sysinstall doesn't support this, but there are some good
FreeBSD wiki articles on it.

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