On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:19:12PM -0500, Jim Razmus wrote:
I have already replaced two Adaptec controllers with LSI Logic
MEGARAID SATA 150-6 cards. I then added a call to bioctl in
These LSI Megaraid cards are 64-bit PCI, right? Do they have a
PCI Express version?
What motherboards are folks using that support these (64 bit) PCI
slots? Most consumer grade x86 motherboards only have 32-bit PCI
slots. I've seen very few motherboards (at least at newegg) that
have 64-bit PCI, and they're very expensive.
I have them setup with 5 drives in a RAID 5 configuration and the
sixth drive is a hot spare. I can't say enough about this card
and it's support with OpenBSD. In addition to replacing the
existing cards, we build our new machines with them.
I get the impression that you're building commercial or
industrial quality machines... I use those terms very loosely,
i.e. you're building something that you expect to have as little
downtime as possible and last a while, correct?
What kind of hard drives are you using in your RAID? I gather they
are SATA, but are they specially designed/manufactured server
grade drives, or just off-the-shelf consumer grade drives?
What I'm getting at is that I'd like to build a fairly beefy mass
storage box. OpenBSD is so nice as a set it and forget it OS; I'd
like to have the same kind of confidence in my hardware (without
going broke).
Thanks!
Matt
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