Re: SATA-RAID Cards

2006-05-29 Thread Alex Dyas
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Perttu Laine wrote: Same question I asked earlier on -questions list, but I'll make it here again with new subject. :) So does anyone know if these SATA RAID cards or one them works in FreeBSD 5.4/5.5. Some stores have freebsd on supported os list of both card, but fre

Re: SATA-RAID Cards

2006-05-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Thu, 18 May 2006 08:21:25 +0300, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: >Same question I asked earlier on -questions list, but I'll make it here >again with new subject. :) > I would go with the 3ware or the ARECA. ---Mike

Re: SATA-RAID Cards

2006-05-18 Thread Mike Jakubik
Perttu Laine wrote: On 5/18/06, Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XFX Revo64 (which is basically NetCell NC3000) Not quite sure what you just said there, but have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html . Replace arch with your own for detailed info. I woul

Re: SATA-RAID Cards

2006-05-17 Thread Perttu Laine
On 5/18/06, Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XFX Revo64 (which is basically NetCell NC3000) Not quite sure what you just said there, but have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html . Replace arch with your own for detailed info. I wouldn't ask if it was i

Re: SATA-RAID Cards

2006-05-17 Thread Mike Jakubik
Perttu Laine wrote: Same question I asked earlier on -questions list, but I'll make it here again with new subject. :) So does anyone know if these SATA RAID cards or one them works in FreeBSD 5.4/5.5. Some stores have freebsd on supported os list of both card, but freebsds own hardware do

Re: SATA-RAID Cards

2006-05-17 Thread Perttu Laine
On 5/18/06, Perttu Laine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So does anyone know if these SATA RAID cards or one them works in FreeBSD 5.4/5.5. Some stores have freebsd on supported os list of both card, but freebsds own hardware doesn't have either one. Card would be: XFX Revo64 (which i

SATA-RAID Cards

2006-05-17 Thread Perttu Laine
Same question I asked earlier on -questions list, but I'll make it here again with new subject. :) So does anyone know if these SATA RAID cards or one them works in FreeBSD 5.4/5.5. Some stores have freebsd on supported os list of both card, but freebsds own hardware doesn't have

Re: Raid Cards & mobo

2005-10-13 Thread Ronny Hippler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Kirkwood wrote: > The Promise cards are all listed using their chip numbers (like PDC20271 > say, for a thanks for the info I wrote promise support asking for chipsets for some cards that I am looking at. I am also considering the FastTrak TX42

Re: Raid Cards & mobo

2005-10-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Ronny Hippler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! I am in the early stages of building a new machine to act as a file/web server newsgroup leacher etc. I know I want to add a raid card and was looking @ the PROMISE SATAII150 TX4 PCI SATA Controller Card. I am

Raid Cards & mobo

2005-10-12 Thread Ronny Hippler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! I am in the early stages of building a new machine to act as a file/web server newsgroup leacher etc. I know I want to add a raid card and was looking @ the PROMISE SATAII150 TX4 PCI SATA Controller Card. I am running 4.10 currently

Re: RAID Cards

2005-07-01 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 1, 2005, at 3:19 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Thu, 2005-Jun-30 17:18:15 -0400, Simon wrote: It's not only CPU factor, I don't trust software RAID. I suspect you don't have a choice. Either the RAID is done in the kernel on your host system or the RAID is done in the the firmware on

Re: RAID Cards

2005-07-01 Thread Joseph Kerian
On 6/26/05, Bob Bomar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking to build a new file server. I have used > Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking > at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any > opinions on RAID cards? I've had no real trouble

Re: RAID Cards

2005-07-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Simon wrote: Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of support, doesn't mean the card itself is bad. You wouldn't be saying that if you had had one of your RAIDed drives fail and had no indication whatsoever that it had done so. IMHO, OS level monitoring of a RAID i

Re: RAID Cards

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2005-Jun-30 17:18:15 -0400, Simon wrote: >It's not only CPU factor, I don't trust software RAID. I suspect you don't have a choice. Either the RAID is done in the kernel on your host system or the RAID is done in the the firmware on your RAID card. In either case, it's software. -- Pet

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-30 Thread Simon
It's not only CPU factor, I don't trust software RAID. As for monitoring, I can tell whether or not a drive is dead via SAFTE chip and all SCSI RAID cards support SAFTE and a proper SCSI server would have SAFTE support. As for SATA, the 3ware cards have 3dm tool to monitor the array.

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-30 Thread Danny Howard
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:48:18PM -0400, Simon wrote: > Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of > support, doesn't mean the card itself is bad. I much prefer hardware > implementation than software. True hardware RAID frees up a lot of > CPU time if you have heavy IO an

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-30 Thread Simon
gt; >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I am looking to build a new file server. I have used >> Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking >> at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any >> opinions on RAID cards? &

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-30 Thread Danny Howard
Bob Bomar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am looking to build a new file server. I have used Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any opinions on RAID cards? My 2c: RAID cards suck, because they are

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-28 Thread Bruce Burden
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:38:34PM -0600, Nethaniel St. Donovan wrote: > Option 6 for Freebsd boot up screen is "drop to boot commandline". > Okay, that one. My problems started when I went to multi-user mode, and the RAID logical volume was accessed. > > Fail because whatever Linux I

RE: RAID Cards

2005-06-27 Thread Nethaniel St. Donovan
Sunday, June 26, 2005 7:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Bob Bomar' > Subject: Re: RAID Cards > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:21:02PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I can say my experience with adaptec 3200s cards has

RE: RAID Cards

2005-06-27 Thread Toll, Eric
have any opinions on RAID cards? I really like 3Ware cards. They are true hardware (XOR) RAID. They have a "neeto" 3DM2 web gui software interface, and it can email you if the array gets into trouble. I think 3Ware has great OS support for BSD. I am using a 3Ware RAID card with (2) W

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-27 Thread Niki Denev
I am looking to build a new file server. I have used Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any opinions on RAID cards? After the initial attempt to use Adaptec 2010S ZeroChannel raid on one Supermicro Dual Opteron server that

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
Anybody have any >opinions on RAID cards? For RAID1, the 3ware cards are great. I have been using them many years. For RAID5, I have started using the Areca SATA cards. VERY fast. Both are supported out of the box on FreeBSD 5.4 instal

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-26 Thread Bruce Burden
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:21:02PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can say my experience with adaptec 3200s cards has not been the most > fruitful. It's been 2 weeks now and I cannot even get my system to load past > the initial bootup options screen. Anything but option 6 fails. The sad > thin

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/26/05, Bob Bomar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am looking to build a new file server. I have used > Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking > at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-26 Thread Kent Ketell
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 11:38:42AM -0500, Bob Bomar wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any > opinions on RAID cards? I have had great results with the Adaptec 2200s controllers. Just remember to not

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-26 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Of Bob Bomar Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RAID Cards -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am looking to build a new file server. I have used Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking at Highpoint cards for this

RE: RAID Cards

2005-06-26 Thread nethaniel
or I cannot load my driver. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Bomar > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 10:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RAID Cards > > -BEGIN P

RAID Cards

2005-06-26 Thread Bob Bomar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am looking to build a new file server. I have used Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any opinions on RAID cards? - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob