Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-16 Thread Danny Howard
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:52:46PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > >> Is your solution better? > > > > You can deliver your own opinion, my resolution is at: > > http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ > > I was able to make the atacontrol method work flawlessly via a

RE: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Howard wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:37:24PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: >> I tried following the instructions at: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and couldn't make it work. >> >> I ended up installi

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Danny Howard
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:37:24PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > I tried following the instructions at: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and couldn't make it work. > > I ended up installing a minimal installation on one disk, reooting to the > new install, doing atacontrol create RAID1 ad

RE: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Howard wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty >>

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Danny Howard
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? > >> The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty > >> expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card. Is 5.3 > >> compatible with any of

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > > RAID1. I'm looking into gmirror, but it seems like it might be messy if > one of the drives dies. What makes you say that? I have gmirror running and I simulated drive failures on both controllers, and reconstructed the provide

RE: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Howard wrote: > Mike Loiterman wrote: > >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? >> The 3ware ones listed in the hardware note

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Danny Howard
Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card. Is 5.3 compatible with any of the adpatec or pr

<$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-14 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card. Is 5.3 compatible with any of the adpatec or promise cards? - ---